I believe that an individual’s biological influences manifest during
infancy and progress during development. Often during infancy in regard to the
interactions of infants with parents, infants often display biological
influences of one parent or the other or sometimes a combination of both. Such
interactions even with caregivers other than biological parents and with
biological parents help personality develop along with biological influences.
Therefore, I believe personality development is a combination of biological
influences and the environment. Friedman and Schustack (2011), “the existence
of many environmentally based biological influences on personality is another
reason to be cautious about assuming hereditary causes of personality” (p.
171). As a father of three children I often saw during infancy how my oldest
son and daughter displayed behavior similar to that of myself, while my
youngest son often displayed behavior similar to that of my ex-wife.
Reference
Friedman, H. S., & Schustack, M. W.,
(2011). Personality. Classic Theories and Modern Research (5th ed.). Allyn
& Bacon.
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