ABSTRACT

Personality was defined earlier as the way a person functions, the way he interacts with his environment (page 37). It includes the way a person receives stimuli, deals with them, and acts so as to change the input he receives. The person may move so as to receive the stimuli more intensely or he may do something to eliminate stimuli that are themselves unpleasant or which evoke unpleasant associations for him. Thus personology studies living people who are experiencing, feeling, thinking, and doing.