factors that determine and influence personality

• Genetics and Heredity Factors


  -          a new individual develops when the male sex cells (sperm) fertilizes the female sex cell (ovum) during sexual intercourse
• Environmental Factors


  -          a child’s behavior is also learned from his environment, he learned things like eating, walking, talking and the development of his honesty and fair play cased on the accepted behavior patters in his social environment
• environmental factors -          primary group:

  -    an intimate face to face association and cooperation

  -    family, playmates, and neighborhood friends

  -    child learns largely in two ways;

  ›           he realized he is either rewarded or punished by his family, depending upon whether he complies or not to their wishes

  ›           he imitates the people around him particularly if their behavior seems to gain the approval of others

  -    our religious, moral, and political beliefs and ideas are for the most part those of our parents
• environmental factors-          secondary group:

  -    this occurs when the individual increases his level of interaction with his society

  ›           during the time that the individual enters school or when the family relocates from one place to another
• Cultural Influences


  -          human beings are involved in social interactions wherein humans have to maintain certain relationships with the people and other species in his environment

  -          the behavior that the person manifested starts a chain of reactions whether it is positive or negative towards the person

  -          culture is passed on from generations to generations and the individual on the present time has to practice the culture in order for them to pass in to the next generation for its continuity