Personality

• Personality


  A pattern of relatively permanent traits and unique characteristics that give both consistency and individuality to a person's behavior
• Trait


  Contribute to individual differences in behavior, consistency of behavior over time, and stability of behavior across situations. Traits may be unique, common to some group, or shared by the entire species, but their pattern is different for everyone. Thus, each person, though like others in some ways, has a unique personality - INHERITED.
• Characteristic


  Unique qualities of an individual that include such attributes as temperament, physique, and intelligence. Associated with INTEGRITY, HONESTY, HELPFULNESS.
• Categories of Traits and Characteristics

  • Physical
  • Personal
  • Relational
  • Social role
• Theory


  A set of related assumptions that allows to use logical deductive reasoning to formulated testable hypotheses.
• Personality depends on the theory that defines it
• Approaches to Personality

  • Psychoanalytic
  • Trait
  • Humanistic
  • Social-Cognitive
• Dimensions for a Concept of Humanity

  • Determinism vs Free Choice
  • Pessimism vs Optimism
  • Causality vs Teleology
  • Conscious vs Unconscious Determinants of Behavior
  • Biological vs Social Influences on Personality
  • Uniqueness vs Similarities
• Humanistic people responsibility and feelings of self-acceptance cause differences in personality
• Social Cognitive people process information to explain differences in behavior
• Determinism are our behavior caused by forces we cant control
• Free will we choose to what we wish to be
• Optimism can we change and grow fully to be what we wish to be
• Pessismism are we doomes to live a miserable life
• Causality our behavior functionof past
• Teleology behavior function for the future goal and purposes
• Conscious are we aware of our behavior
• Unconscious are our behavior driven by unconscious mind
• Biological do genetics and heredity shape us
• Social Influence do social relationship shape us
• Uniqueness do we have salient feature
• Similarities do we all have the same and common characteristic