PersonalityPersonality

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What is personality?What is personality?

The patterns of feelings, thoughts and The patterns of feelings, thoughts and behaviors that set people apart from behaviors that set people apart from one another.one another.

Approaches to understanding Approaches to understanding personality:personality:

Trait ApproachTrait Approach Psychodynamic ApproachPsychodynamic Approach Learning/Behavioral ApproachLearning/Behavioral Approach Humanistic ApproachHumanistic Approach

Trait ApproachTrait Approach Categorizing and describing Categorizing and describing

individual differences in personality.individual differences in personality.

History of the Trait ApproachHippocrates (Ancient Greeks)

Traits were contained in fluids or humors of the body

Gordon Allport (1930s)

Traits were inherited and fixed in the nervous system

Hans Eysenck (Mid 1900s)

Identified two personality traits: introversion and extroversion

HOMEWORK:HOMEWORK:

Find the four basic “humors” of Find the four basic “humors” of Hippocrates and what they stand Hippocrates and what they stand for....for....

QUIZ ON THIS TOMORROW! QUIZ ON THIS TOMORROW!

What is a TRAIT?What is a TRAIT?

An aspect of personality that is An aspect of personality that is considered to be reasonably stable.considered to be reasonably stable.

OutgoingOutgoing ShynessShyness HonestyHonesty FriendlinessFriendliness (over 18,000 human traits in the (over 18,000 human traits in the dictionary describing us) AS A dictionary describing us) AS A RESULT- RESULT- Five Factor ModelFive Factor Model

The FIVE-FACTOR ModelThe FIVE-FACTOR ModelFF NameName TraitsTraits

II ExtroversionExtroversion Active and self-Active and self-expressive; Interact with expressive; Interact with others, outgoingothers, outgoing

IIII AgreeablenessAgreeableness Good-natured, gentle, Good-natured, gentle, cooperative, and securecooperative, and secure

IIIIII ConscientiousnessConscientiousness Responsible, persevering, Responsible, persevering, tidy, scrupuloustidy, scrupulous

IVIV Emotional Emotional Stability-Stability-InstabilityInstability

Coping ability with Coping ability with nervousness, moodiness nervousness, moodiness & sensitivity (neurotic)& sensitivity (neurotic)

VV Openness to Openness to ExperienceExperience

Traits of imagination, Traits of imagination, curiosity, desires for curiosity, desires for more perspectivemore perspective

Assignment: Assignment: What are your What are your traits?traits?

Identify Identify 10 traits10 traits of your own of your own personality. personality.

Represent those traits Represent those traits with a picturewith a picture, , a phrase or some other clipping.a phrase or some other clipping.

On the back of the clipping, write On the back of the clipping, write what what trait it represents in you and trait it represents in you and whywhy you chose it. you chose it.

Hang traits on your mobile with Hang traits on your mobile with string/yarnstring/yarn

Share day is Friday!!Share day is Friday!!

Take the Big Five Test Yourself!Take the Big Five Test Yourself!

Go toGo to

http://www.outofservice.com/bigfive/http://www.outofservice.com/bigfive/ Take the surveyTake the survey After you get your results, go to After you get your results, go to

www.kellykorner.wikispaces.comwww.kellykorner.wikispaces.com, log , log in as a user, and then respond to the in as a user, and then respond to the discussion question and one other discussion question and one other person as the question asks you!person as the question asks you!

Evaluation of the Trait ApproachEvaluation of the Trait Approach

What it does…

What is does not…

Describes personality

Does not explain where personality comes from

•Biological factors have not successfully been approved for tracing trait origin

The The Barnum EffectBarnum Effect

• Tendency to accept general Tendency to accept general statements as accurate statements as accurate descriptions of ones-self. descriptions of ones-self.

• Broad or global descriptions fit Broad or global descriptions fit every man/womenevery man/women

• Found in horoscopesFound in horoscopes• Statements based on deductions Statements based on deductions

rather than specific theoryrather than specific theory