What Is Personality?

WHAT IS PERSONALITY?
PERSONALITY CHARACTERISTICS

1. WHAT IS PERSONALITY?
Powerpoint presentation
by
V.SIVARAMAKRISHNAN, CHENNAI

2. DICTIONARY MEANING:
A person’s distinctive character or qualities
Socially attractive qualities (was clever but
had no personality)
Famous person (TV Personality)

3. What is personality?
Personality is somebody’s set of
characteristics

4. Attitudes
Interests
Behavioral patterns
Emotional responses
Social roles
Other individual traits
Personality is the totality of
somebody’s :

5. Personality usually refers to:
that which is unique about a person
the characteristics that distinguish him
or her from other people

6. Personality implies :
predictability about how a person will
act or react under different
circumstances.

7. What determines personality?
Heredity and environment interact to
form personality

8. INTELLIGENCE AND TEMPERAMENT

Among the personality characteristics that
are known to be at least partly
determined by heredity are:
intelligence &
temperament (quality of mind)

9. PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT
Most experts believe that a child’s
experiences in the family are crucial for
personality development.
How well basic needs are met in
infancy, along with later patterns of
child rearing, can leave a permanent
mark on personality.

10. How children learn behaviour?
Children learn behavior appropriate to
their sex by identifying with their same-
sex parent.
a warm relationship with that parent
facilitates such learning.
Children are also influenced by their
siblings.

11. ROLE OF SOCIAL AND CULTURAL
TRADITIONS
Some authorities emphasize the role of
social and cultural traditions in
personality development.

12. PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT TEST
The interview, a widely used
method of personality assessment, is a
means of eliciting from the individual a
report of past, present, and anticipated
future responses.