Self Analysis Psy/285
Self-Analysis
By: Matthew Greenwell
PSY-285
Professor: Dr. Jocelyn Enabulele
Date: 1/25/2015
I am honest. Telling the truth can be hard for people to do but not me. Telling the truth can be hard for people to hear. But it is the only way for us to better ourselves or to move past an event in our lives. I have seen the affects growing up of how my father lied to my mother and the damage that is can cause. Honesty allows us to build trust which is such an important bond that we build with our family, friends and even total strangers. As I am getting older I am realizing that honest is always the best policy but it matters on how you deliver the honesty.
I am disciplined. I am the son of two military parents and I grew …show more content…
I do not blame my failures on others or because of a particular situation. I believe that I create my own outcomes and if something does not work out for me I see it as a challenge to try harder next time or go about things in a different way. I have a problem with self-serving bias because it teaches your children that they do not have to accept the consequences of their own actions.
When it comes to my locus of control I believe that I have an internal locus of control. I believe you are in charge of your own destination. Too many times in life people want to blame their failures on things that may have happened to them as children or because someone else is responsible for stopping them from their success. I believe that if you have goals you want to achieve you can achieve those goals. It may not happen right away and may take hard work but successful people do not quit when the going gets …show more content…
This would not be true. I do not consider myself fake but I do conduct myself differently depending on who I am around. I realize that I want to be in everyone 's good graces all the time but also that I respect other peoples opinions and I have even held my tongue in instances just for other people to voice their own opinions and be happy. Also, when I have gone on some job interviews I tend to act a bit more conservative then I probably am. I can intimidate some people with my personality so if I really want the job I don’t want them to know exactly how I am until I have landed the
By: Matthew Greenwell
PSY-285
Professor: Dr. Jocelyn Enabulele
Date: 1/25/2015
I am honest. Telling the truth can be hard for people to do but not me. Telling the truth can be hard for people to hear. But it is the only way for us to better ourselves or to move past an event in our lives. I have seen the affects growing up of how my father lied to my mother and the damage that is can cause. Honesty allows us to build trust which is such an important bond that we build with our family, friends and even total strangers. As I am getting older I am realizing that honest is always the best policy but it matters on how you deliver the honesty.
I am disciplined. I am the son of two military parents and I grew …show more content…
I do not blame my failures on others or because of a particular situation. I believe that I create my own outcomes and if something does not work out for me I see it as a challenge to try harder next time or go about things in a different way. I have a problem with self-serving bias because it teaches your children that they do not have to accept the consequences of their own actions.
When it comes to my locus of control I believe that I have an internal locus of control. I believe you are in charge of your own destination. Too many times in life people want to blame their failures on things that may have happened to them as children or because someone else is responsible for stopping them from their success. I believe that if you have goals you want to achieve you can achieve those goals. It may not happen right away and may take hard work but successful people do not quit when the going gets …show more content…
This would not be true. I do not consider myself fake but I do conduct myself differently depending on who I am around. I realize that I want to be in everyone 's good graces all the time but also that I respect other peoples opinions and I have even held my tongue in instances just for other people to voice their own opinions and be happy. Also, when I have gone on some job interviews I tend to act a bit more conservative then I probably am. I can intimidate some people with my personality so if I really want the job I don’t want them to know exactly how I am until I have landed the