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This document discusses personality development and the factors that influence it. It describes personality as the collective traits that make a person unique, including their behaviors, attitudes, and reactions. Personality is shaped both by nature, such as genetic factors and aptitudes, and nurture, specifically one's environment and learning. The cultural environment, parents, birth order, and blending of hereditary and social influences all contribute to the development of personality over a lifetime.

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Personality & Skill Development Personality & Skill Development

This document discusses personality development and the factors that influence it. It describes personality as the collective traits that make a person unique, including their behaviors, attitudes, and reactions. Personality is shaped both by nature, such as genetic factors and aptitudes, and nurture, specifically one's environment and learning. The cultural environment, parents, birth order, and blending of hereditary and social influences all contribute to the development of personality over a lifetime.

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Personality

Personality &
& Skill
Skill
Development
Development
Prof. M.Balaji
VSB Engineering college,karur.
Definition of Personality
• The pattern of collective character,
behavioral, temperamental, emotional,
and mental traits of a person
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.
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.
Types of Personalities

• Outer Personality • Inner Personality


Features of Outer
Personality
• Behavior • Action
• Style • Dressing
• Speech • Outer Appearance
Features of Inner
Personality
• Nature • Selection
• Way of Thinking
• Inner Purity
Difference Between
Outer Personality Inner Personality
• Related to Physic. • Related with Mind &
• Easy to change. Soul.
• Diminish with time. • Difficult to change.
• Reflects in Behavior. • Enlightens with time.
eg. Amitabh Bacchan • Reflects in Nature.
eg. Mahatma Gandhi.
Personality Development
• 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.
Personality Development
• 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.
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.
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.
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)
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.
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)
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.
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.
Sociobiology
• In general sociobioligists argue that most
of human social life is determined by
biological factors.
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.
Blending of factors…
• Heredity, birth order, parents and
cultural environment are among the
principal factors that social scientists
see influencing personality and
behavior.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.

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