in psychology, which is the best definition for the term personality? . responses a combination of long-lasting and distinctive behaviors, thoughts, motives, and emotions that typify how we react to other people and situations a combination of long-lasting and distinctive behaviors, thoughts, motives, and emotions that typify how we react to other people and situations our situationally-defined patterns of responses to stimuli in our environment, which we have learned through a variety of experiences our situationally-defined patterns of responses to stimuli in our environment, which we have learned through a variety of experiences favorable and unfavorable personal characteristics favorable and unfavorable personal characteristics a fixed way of responding to other people that is based on our inherited emotional makeup