PERDEV

• Personal Development - is the mirror you will see yourself as you are and celebrate everything about you. It is beautifully wrapped package, you will discover the seeds of your emotional intelligence-the single, the most important skill every person need to develop, to be successful and, perhaps, to be happier in life
• Physical development - covers the growth of the body and the brain, motor and sensory skills, and even physical health;
• Cognitive Development - covers our capacity to learn, to speak, to understand, to reason.
• Psychosocial Development - includes our social interactions, our emotions, attitudes, self-identity, personality, beliefs, and values.
• human development covers the whole lifespan of human existence in relation to the three domains, personal development is one’s own development and growth within the context of the three aspects of human development
• Heredity - or the inborn traits passed on by the generations of offspring’s from both sides of the biological parents’ families.
• Environment - is the world outside ourselves and the experiences that result from our contact and interaction with this external world.
• Maturation - is like the natural growth and development of both your brain and body. It impacts how you think, feel, and relate to others. It involves getting smarter, understanding emotions, shaping your attitude, and building relationships as you grow.
• Psychology - being the study of human thinking and behaviour, serves as a foundation for personal development.
• Self-concepts - are rarely all positive or all negative; someone may have both positive and some negative
• ideal self - is the self that you aspire to be. It is the one that you hope will possess characteristics similar to that of a mentor or some other worldly figure
• actual self - however, is the one that you actually see. It is the self that has characteristics that you were nurtured or, in some cases, born to have
• Incongruence - is when there is a misalignment and not a balance or overlap between the actual self and the ideal self
• they experience incongruence, which can lead to maladjustment. Incongruent experiences with oneself are deemed unpleasant, resulting in feelings of inadequacy, anxiety, and distress
• " nature " refers to genetic factors (heredity) and " nurture " refers to external or (environmental factors).
• Trait theory is an approach in identifying types of personalities based on certain traits and attributes, which vary from one person to other. This theory was developed over the past 60 years, started by D. W. Fiske (1949)
• Openness - how open to new ideas and experiences, curiosity and interest
• Conscientiousness - goal directed, persistent and organized person, planning and organizing
• extraversion - how much a person energize with the outside world, sociable/social butterfly and talkative
• Agreeableness - how much person puts other interest than their own
• neuroticism - how sensitive a person is to stress and negative emotional triggers, calm, relaxed, comfortable.
• the Myers– Briggs Type Indicator is an introspective self-report questionnaire indicating differing psychological preferences in how people perceive the world and make decisions. Katherine Briggs and Isabel Myers developed the Myers-Briggs personality model based on for preferences of individuals.
• E or I (Extraversion or Introversion) is how an individual prefers to channel his or her energy when dealing with people
• S or N (Sensing or Intuition) is how one prefers to process information, whether using senses such as being able to describe what one sees, or intuitively like dealing with ideas
• T or F (Thinking or Feeling) is how an individual prefers to make decisions, either thinking or using logic and analysis, or feeling, which uses the cognitive senses based on values or beliefs
• J or P (Judging or Perception) is how an individual prefers to live life, judging by making plans and sticking to them, or perceiving by keeping options open and flexible
• A” means ASSERTIVE- A person is more calm, confident, and easy going. “T” means TURBULENT- A person is more anxious, self-conscious, and perfectionist.
• Holistic development - refers to human development that is meant to involve all the parts of a person
• physiological - physical attributes including the 5 senses
• cognitive - the intellectual functions of the minds
• psychological - how thinking, feeling, and behaving interact and happen in a person
• Social - the manner by which an individual interacts with other individuals or a group
• Spiritual - the attribute of a person’s consciousness and beliefs, including the values and virtues that guide and out into a person’s life
• Understanding a person holistically means that one aspect cannot be seen in isolation from the whole person
• BASIC DRIVES - biologically related, such as hunger and thirst
• AFFECT - various emotional experiences, such as emotions, moods, and affective trait
• Feelings, on the other hand, are associated with bodily reactions. To simplify what it means – are basically mental
• Emotions - are mainly about dealing with conscious thoughts, reasoning, and decision making. It can be either be fear, love, rage, sadness, or happiness
• attitude - person’s thoughts, feelings, and emotions about another person, object, idea, behavior, or situation. Evaluation of an experience based on his or her values and belief systems. basically a way of thinking or feeling about something or someone. It’s not just a random thought that pops into your head; it's more like a mental habit
• Behavior - manifestation or acting out of the attitudes an individual has. is a response to things that are happening: internally - thoughts and feelings. externally - the environment, including other people