Coursework Questions 1-4: Elements Of Social Behavior

QUESTION 1-4
By:
Institutional Affiliation:
1 Theories of personality are based on observations of how humans develop behavior patterns. Psychological testing assumes there are certain fixed aspects of human personality and those aspects can be identified through standardized measurements. As part of your application for a position, you may be administered one of these tests to determine if you are a good fit for the company. Take this assessment and comment on (1) its accuracy for you and (2) which of those traits may change over time.
In my case, an extroverted personality trait may be a good and accurate fit for me. This is apparent in the fact that I am fond of making interactions with others. As an individual with a high extraversion in my career, I have a developed tendency of stimulating others and seeking out the company, with most of my focus directed towards engaging with the external world. As an extrovert, I mainly flourish of excitements, enthusiasm, and action orientations, an approach that makes me at the center of all attention within organizations work in a group (Buyukgoze-Kavas, 2016). I additionally find fulfillment in group activities and projects, with this enabling me to take my thoughts through in connecting with other personalities within the work environment. In this accord, the traits that are likely to change over the duration of time in regards to my character includes being assertive and talkative. In as much as I may be talkative, this is bound to change over time. On the other hand, as an extrovert, I may not be assertive all the time since this depends on the situations that present themselves in life.
2 Three elements of social behavior involve conformity, compliance, and obedience. Your text illustrates these concepts in the Milligram experiment and the Stanford Prison experiment, in addition to the two websites below. When did you conform to something you might have otherwise not have done?
Conformity
The act of conformity involves variations on an individual’s personal behavior as an approach aimed at fitting into a social group that surrounds a person or one which the individual is affiliated with empirically. The primary rationale for conformity remains in aligning or agreeing with oneself to the requirements of a social group. This apparently ensures that an individual does not look foolish in the social group. In this case, the element of conformity results from two reasons which include the acquisition of an informative and normative influence. According to Dambrun & Vatiné (2012), there are two types of conformity which include informative and normative, and identification and compliance. An instance of this is evident in an individual in a group engages in a game. The individual has an option of either playing the game or quitting. However, the person is likely to make a decision to play the game to conform to the needs of the social group. This, therefore, points on how an individual may leave his ways an approach to life to fit within a social group. Another instance can be depicted in the influence among teens to dress like their peers to fit within the group. Teenagers are therefore pushed to wear in this fashion to conform to the norms of the grou...