Prof Roomana N Siddiqui Chairperson Department of Psychology Aligarh Muslim University The common notions of personality It refers to a value judgement It deals with the external appearance ID: 1003806
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1. Personality: Concept and DefinitionProf. Roomana N. SiddiquiChairpersonDepartment of PsychologyAligarh Muslim University
2. The common notions of personalityIt refers to a value judgement. It deals with the external appearanceIt is the effect that a person creates on another.Some identify it with aggressiveness.It is biologically determinedFor a student of psychology it is a psychological construct and refers to an area of empirical investigation.
3. Initially (European Psychologist) Personality was referred to as character and the study of it was known as characterology.American psychologist influenced by behaviourism used the term personality derived from the Latin word “Personna” which denoted a theatrical mask used in Greek dramas.It focused on the external manifestation of behavior.Personality was defined in terms of the ways in which an individual interacts with others or in terms of therole they choose or adopt in society.
4. As man expresses himself in 3 modes personality has to be understood at these three levelsThe biologicalThe interpersonal or socialThe inter-individual, how we relate to ourself.
5. Psychologists want to understand how personality develops as well as how it influences the way we think and behave. They are interested in knowing how personality varies among individuals as well as how people are similar.consistent differences that exist between people: in this sense, emphasizes those qualities that make all people alike and that distinguish psychological man from other species.
6. Key Characteristics of PersonalityPersonality consists of a collection of traits and characteristics both positive and negative.It is organized and consistent. It is relatively stableThough stable, it is also dynamic as it can be influenced by the environment. It represents the structural and dynamic property of an individual.It is a unique set of characteristics
7. It consists of the most dominant characteristics.It consists of inherent characteristics and acquired characteristics.It is an underlying characteristic that cannot be seen but inferred from behavior.It consists of characteristics that differentiate between two or more people.It is the most distinctive way of behaving.
8. DefinitionsMorton Prince: Personality is the sum total of all the biological innate dispositions, impulses, tendencies, appetites and instincts of an individual and the acquired dispositions and tendencies.Gordon Allport: Personality is the dynamic organisation within the individual of those psychophysical systems that determine his unique adjustment to his environment.Kempf: Personality is the habitual way of adjustment which an individual makes between his interest and the environment.
9. Guilford: Personality is a persons unique pattern of traits.Woodworth: Personality is the style of lifeLazarus and Monat: Personality is the underlying relatively stable psychological structure and processes that organize human experience and shape a persons activities and reactions to the environment.
10. Understanding personality is important as it helps psychologists to predict how people will respond to certain situations and the sorts of things they prefer and value.The unique personality that one has makes you who you are as a person and influences everything from your relationships to the way you live.
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