Personality Development

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Personality & Skill Personality & Skill Development Development Prof. M.Balaji Prof. M.Balaji VSB Engineering VSB Engineering college,karur. college,karur.

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Personality & Skill Personality & Skill DevelopmentDevelopment

Prof. M.BalajiProf. M.BalajiVSB Engineering college,karur.VSB Engineering college,karur.

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Definition of Personality

• The pattern of collective character, behavioral, temperamental, emotional, and mental traits of a person

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Other Definitions • To social scientists, personality is the

sum total of behaviors, attitudes, beliefs, and values that are characteristic of an individual.

• Our personality traits determine how we adjust to our environment and how we react in specific situations.

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Other Definitions • No two individuals have the same

personalities. Each individual has his or her own way of interacting with other people and with his or her social environment.

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Types of Personalities• Outer

Personality• Inner Personality

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Features of Outer Personality

• Behavior• Style• Speech

• Action• Dressing• Outer Appearance

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Features of Inner Personality

• Nature• Way of Thinking• Inner Purity

• Selection

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Difference Between Outer Personality

• Related to Physic. • Easy to change.• Diminish with time.• Reflects in Behavior.eg. Amitabh Bacchan

Inner Personality• Related with Mind &

Soul.• Difficult to change.• Enlightens with time.• Reflects in Nature.eg. Mahatma Gandhi.

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• People’s personalities continue to develop throughout their lifetimes. Specific traits change at different rates and to different degrees.

• Some personality traits seem to remain constant throughout a person’s life, while others undergo dramatic changes.

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• Personality development is more obvious during childhood, when people are experiencing rapid physical, emotional, and intellectual growth.

• At adulthood, personality traits change at a slower rate. However personality development varies form individual to individual.

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Nature vs. Nurture• Sociologists debate what determines

personality and social behavior.

• Some argue that it is heredity – the transmission of genetic characteristics from parents to children.

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Nature vs. Nurture• Others suggest that the social

environment – contact with other people – determines personality.

• This debate is usually referred to in terms of nature versus nurture, or inherited genes versus environment and social learning.

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The Nature Viewpoint• Since the 1800s this viewpoint states

that much of human behavior is instinctual in origin.

• An instinct is an unchanging behavior pattern. Instinct is most often applied to animal behavior. (Ex. Birds building nests)

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The Nature Viewpoint• Supporters of this viewpoint claim

biology as the basis for human behavior. They claim that instinctual drives are responsible for practically everything – laughing, motherhood, religion, even the creation of society.

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The Nurture Viewpoint• From this viewpoint a person’s behavior

and personality are the result of his or her social environment and learning.

• The work of Ivan Pavlov helped this viewpoint gain acceptance. He found that supposedly instinctual behaviors could be taught. (Ex. Dog Experiment)

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The Nurture Viewpoint• Sociologist John B. Watson suggested

that what applied to dogs could apply to humans. He claimed that he could take a dozen healthy infants and train them to become anything he wanted – doctors, lawyers, artists, beggars, or thieves.

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Sociobiology• The emergence of sociobiology – the

systematic study of the biological basis of all social behavior – emphasized the nature viewpoint.

• Sociobiologists argue that such varied cultural characteristics and behavioral traits as religion, cooperation, competition, slavery, envy, etc. are rooted in the genetic make-up of humans.

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Sociobiology• In general sociobioligists argue that

most of human social life is determined by biological factors.

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Blending of factors…• Most social scientists assume that

personality and social behavior result from a blending of heredity and social environmental influences.

• They believe that environmental factors have the greatest influence.

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Blending of factors…• Heredity, birth order, parents

and cultural environment are among the principal factors that social scientists see influencing personality and behavior.

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Heredity• Everyone has certain characteristics that

are present at birth. (body build, hair type, eye color, and skin)

• Heredity characteristics also include certain aptitudes. An aptitude is a capacity to learn a particular skill or acquire a particular body of knowledge.

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Heredity• Example: a natural talent for music and art

would be considered an aptitude.• However, some aptitudes can be learned

and developed because of environmental factors.

• Example: Parents encouragement• Heredity provides you with certain

biological needs, but culture determines how you meet those needs.

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Birth Order• Our personalities are influenced by

whether we have brothers, sisters, both, or neither.

• Children with siblings have a different view of the world than children who don’t have siblings.

• The order in which we are born into our families also influences our personalities.

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Birth Order• People born first or last in a family have a

different perspective than do people in the middle.

• Example: first born are likely to be achievement oriented and responsible. Later born are more likely to be better in social relationships, affectionate, friendly, or rebels and risk-takers.

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Cultural Environment• Culture has a strong influence on

personality development. The cultural environment determines the basic types of personalities that will be found in a society.

• Each culture gives rise to a series of personality traits – model personalities – that are typical of members of that society.