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• Personality


  The set of behaviors, feelings, thoughts, and motives that identifies an individual
• Personality


  • Influenced by both nature (heredity or genetic make-up) and nurture (environment)
  • Can be observed in people's behavior
• Factors influencing personality


  • Nature (heredity or genetic make-up)
  • Nurture (environment)
• OCEAN model


  • Openness to experiences
  • Conscientiousness
  • Extraversion
  • Agreeableness
  • Neuroticism
• Myers-Briggs Type Indicator


  • Extraversion or Introversion
  • Sensing or Intuition
  • Thinking or Feeling
  • Judgement or Perception
• Aspects of holistic development

  • Physiological
  • Cognitive
  • Psychological
  • Social
  • Spiritual
• Physiological


  Physical attributes including the five physical senses
• Cognitive


  Intellectual functions of the mind: thinking, recognizing, reasoning, analyzing and recalling
• Psychological


  Thinking, feeling, behaving interact and happen in a person
• Social


  Manner by which an individual interacts with other individuals or groups of individuals
• Spiritual


  Attribute of a person's consciousness and beliefs, including the values and virtues that guides and put meaning into a person's life
• Basic emotions (Ekman)


  • Happiness
  • Sadness
  • Fear
  • Anger
  • Surprise
  • Disgust
• Basic emotions (Institute of Neuroscience)

  • Happy
  • Sad
  • Afraid or Surprised
  • Angry or Disgusted
• Feelings


  Physical sensations experienced by the body as a reaction to a certain external stimulus
• Emotions


  Arise from the brain as it interprets feelings
• Attitude


  A result of a person's evaluation of an experience
• Behavior


  Manifestation or acting out of the attitudes an individual has