How do we live:
We live as individuals and as groups. Our individuality is reflected by the group classifications as well as by our education, occupation, status, profession, capacity to exercise power, wealth, well being and associations. When it comes to groups they are mainly one of the following : community, ethnic, linguistic, nationality based, occupational, political, professional, racial, religious, sectarian and social.
Role of Psychology
Psycholgoy concerns itself with understanding how :
Role of Personality :
Understanding personality helps psychologists to predict how people respond to certain situations and the sorts of things they prefer and value.
Personality is popularly defined as the characteristic ways of our thinking, feeling, acting, doing, performing, interacting and behaving distinguishing one person from another.
Personality manifests as our attitudes, opinions, temperaments and moods - principally when it comes to our orientation toward persons, groups of persons, environment and, economic and world situations.
Personality also manifests how we respond to and / or deal with the many things listed below:
- Events, incidents, happenings, occurrences and accidents;
- People, their expression of thoughts and feelings, actions, behaviour and what they say and do;
- Situations, problems, difficulties, conditions, challenges, dilemmas and conflicts;
- Personality structures our perception, evaluation, assessment, drawing conclusions and judgements.
- Personality explains
- our flights of thought, emotional and thinking logjams, and frozen mind.
- how our capacity for creativity, innovation, out of the box thinking and problem solving occurs.
- how our inhibitions and compulsive behaviours occur.
- how our motivation and shifts of moods takes place.
- the occurrence of mental and behavioural disorders.
- the occurrence of habits and addictions.
- passivity and passive behaviours.
- defects in thinking / thinking disorders.
