DEFINING PERSONALITY
- Combines of a set of physical and mental characteristics that reflect how a person looks,thinks,acts and feels.
- Predictable relationship are expected between people's personalities and their behaviours.
Major determinants of personality
• Biological factors
- Heredity
- Brain
- Biofeedback
- Physical features
- Physical features
• Cultural Factors
• Family Factors
• Social Factors
• Situational Factors
• Id
- Functions on 'pleasure principle'
- Immediate gratification of need to reduce tension & discomfort regardless of consequences
Psychoanalytic Theory
- Functions on 'pleasure principle'
- Immediate gratification of need to reduce tension & discomfort regardless of consequences
• Superego
- Functions on 'idealistic principle'
- Our moral guide / conscience
- Influenced by internalizing our parent's value & the voice of society
- Works against the Id by inflicting guilt
• Ego
- Functions on 'reality principle'
- Serves to balance the demand the Id and the Superego
- Assesses what is realistically possible in satisfying the Id and/or Superego
- Ego uses defense mechanisms to protect itself
Personality Trait
• Trait are define as "a distinguishing quality or characteristic of personality" In other word this means that personality traits are the distinguishing quality of characteristic that makes "you".
• Personality traits are the unique set of characteristics and quality that only you possess.
• While a lot of peoples might have similar personality traits,each person combines these trait in a different way to create one unique, irreplaceable conglomerations of traits that make up their individual personality.
• Personality traits are the unique set of characteristics and quality that only you possess.
• While a lot of peoples might have similar personality traits,each person combines these trait in a different way to create one unique, irreplaceable conglomerations of traits that make up their individual personality.
