EUTHENICS I PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

• 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 facetsConglomeration 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.
• 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