All these considerations affect what is available to learn, and what is not available. Traits affect what constitutes reinforcement and punishment for the person, and what signals attract his or her attention. A person develops certain constructs, certain schemas to represent the ideas and objects that populate his or her life space. In other words, personality represents the interdependent product of motives, cognitions, traits, and social context. We acquire reactions, responses, patterns of conduct, beliefs, ideals, values, and preferences in the course of our life experience, in the course of engaging with the world around us.
Personality is a process of living a life.