The Art of
Understanding
Personality:
Unlocking the Secrets
to Personal and
Professional Success
Understanding Personality
- Comes from the latin word "persona", which means,
"mask"
- Combination of trait patterns that play a vital role in
the behavior.
- Comprised of dynamic patter of behavior, consistent
set of thoughts and feelings that makes one distinct.
- Generally a summation of overt and covert behavior.
- Combination of the physiological, moral and spiritual,
psychological and emotional, intellectual facets
- Conglomeration of an individual's thoughts, feelings,
emotions, attitudes, intelligence, interests and abilities.
What is Personality
Development?
Development entails progression either
quantitatively or qualitatively. The same
is true with one's persona.
Personality can be developed in either
or both ways.
What are the Influences
on Personality?
Psychodynamic Theory
Behaviorism
Humanistic
Trait Theory
Psychodynamic Theory
- Developed by Sigmund Freud
- It is said that personality is made
up ofthree major systems
- Interaction between these three
systems are said to be the main
determinants of one's unique
personality
ID
Ego
Superego
Behaviorism
- The word "Behaviorism" is coined by
John B. Watson, who argued that
personality can only be determined
through overt responses.
- Manipulation of environment may
produce certain behaviors.
Humanistic Theories
- Focused on changes and
development of personality.
- How a person behaves depends
upon his reality and not from his
environment.
- Personality becomes a reflection of
how one's needs were fulfilled in the
course of his development.
Trait Theories
- Posited that personality can be understood as exhibited in
one's common traits of characteristic ways of behaving.
- Raymond Cattell's personality assessment.
-Hans Eysenck is a trait theorist that emphasized that
biological inheritance is the origin of human traits.
Factors affecting the
Development of
Personality
Nature vs Nurture
- Nature is a person's biological inheritance
- -23 pairs of chromosome we got from our
parents.
- Dominant genes overpower recessive genes.
- Nurture points out to the development
contributed by the environment.
- Formal learning affects personality as one is
immersed to different kinds of people.
Basic Personality
Traits
- Openness to Experience
- Conscientiousness
- Extraversion
- Agreeableness
- Neuroticism
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