...Understanding Personality By Caroline Hinkes What is personality? Personality, in its simplest definition, refers to the overall characterization of an individual-including both positive and negative, made evident by different circumstances in a person's life. Personality encapsulates the different traits that people perceive in an individual. Personality isn't something that you're just born with. While some traits may be present at birth, there are so many other factors that help build a person's personality. Factors such as education, physical limitations, genetic makeup, environment exposure, life experiences, and emotional issues all come together to create the entirety of an individual's personality. By working toward an ideal personality, a person can develop new standards of character and become a better individual with more potential to succeed in life. Every individual has a set of characteristics, both good and bad, that can work together and be managed to develop an ideal personality. Using tools, strategies, and understanding certain principles and ideas can lead one to become more self-confident and linguistically competent. A person's strengths and talents, as well as social skills can also be developed for a more positive perspective on life. Four Factors that Affect Personality When we ask the question, "What is personality?" we also want to know the things that affect it. There are four major areas that contribute to the development of one's personality:...
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...to KRISHIA MARU D. FIGUEROA for her participation in the Seminar “PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT” Given this 15th day of February, 2014 in AMACC Bacolod Campus CAREN B. BACHARO GUEST SPEAKER Certificate of PARTICIPATION This certificate is awarded to HELFRED STEPHEN C. TRINIDAD for his participation in the Seminar “PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT” Given this 15th day of February, 2014 in AMACC Bacolod Campus CAREN B. BACHARO GUEST SPEAKER Certificate of PARTICIPATION This certificate is awarded to ROMY P. BELLOTICA for his participation in the Seminar “PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT” Given this 15th day of February, 2014 in AMACC Bacolod Campus CAREN B. BACHARO GUEST SPEAKER Certificate of PARTICIPATION This certificate is awarded to SHINY GRACE O. COSCA for her participation in the Seminar “PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT” Given this 15th day of February, 2014 in AMACC Bacolod Campus CAREN B. BACHARO GUEST SPEAKER Certificate of PARTICIPATION This certificate is awarded to FRANCHESCA A. LAMAYO for her participation in the Seminar “PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT” Given this 15th day of February, 2014 in AMACC Bacolod Campus CAREN B. BACHARO GUEST SPEAKER Certificate of PARTICIPATION This certificate is awarded to BEAUTY CRES H. CLARO for her participation in the Seminar “PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT” Given this 15th day of February, 2014 in AMACC Bacolod Campus CAREN...
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...Thrust and Platforms * Speech Formation | 16TRAININGTarget Trainers: * Agenda: * Speech Formation | 17TRAININGTarget Trainers: * Agenda: * Speech Formation | 18TRAININGTarget Trainers: * Agenda: * Speech Formation | 19TRAININGTarget Trainers: * Agenda: * Speech Formation | 20TRAININGTarget Trainers: * Kuya Karlo * Kuya Bok * Ate Mitch * Kuya KevinAgenda: * Debate Training * Finalization and Presentation of Speeches | 21UNSURE DATEPARAPHERNALIAAgenda: * Video Shoot * Photoshoot | 22TRAININGTarget Trainers: * Kuya Leo * Ate Shey * Kuya Ralph * Kuya Kevin * Kuya Bok * Ate MitchAgenda: * Personality Development * Speech Delivery | 23TRAININGTarget Trainers: * Agenda: * Personality Development * Speech Delivery | 24Possible date of Filing of COCTRAININGTarget Trainers: * Agenda: * Personality Development * Speech Delivery | 25Possible date of...
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...| | | |Economics |Board | | | | SSC |Talad high school, Talad | ---- |Gujarat State Educational |2005 |First | | | | |Board | | | |Sports Profile | ➢ Trained Swimmer and Table Tennis Player ➢ Team Member Surat Sports Club ➢ Participated in All India Camel Drawing Competition ➢ Certified Course on Personality Development |Work Experience...
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...Developmental Psychology examination questions Extended responses questions identify how the different elements of emotion - expression, recognition, and regulation - develop across the lifespan Human psychology throughout the lifespan is exhibited through the three important elements of emotion, which include; emotional expression regulation of emotional experiences emotional recognition This essay will discuss each of the three elements in the following life developmental stages referring to biological evidence and well know developmental stages referring to biological evidence and well know developmental theorists where appropriate. The three life stages in this essay will be infancy and childhood, adolescence and adulthood. Emotional expression is a key aspect of learning in which the individuals recognizes how to apply emotions that are socially appropriate and in keeping with the emotional development of that person. During infancy, the use of facial expressions is a key means of communication to establish biological needs. For example crying when to be fed or laughing when defecating. At this stage of infancy usually about the first months of birth, key cognitive functions to express emotions such as smiling is reflexive, independent of external stimuli. With the advancement of age of 2 - 3 months this reflexive motor is replaced by social smiling, typically when the baby sees his or her caregivers face. From the ages of 4 - 5 years, emotional...
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...attitudes, emotions, and personalities along with the personal values of the individuals can increase the team’s satisfaction, motivation, and performance. The creation of a plan that has a positive influence on the team will be the cohesive that keeps the team together and assist them to rise above the trivial minutiae. This paper will show that business plan and how the plan will increase the team’s morale, contentment, and production. This paper will also show the specific differences in those elements and how these differences will have a positive influence on the team. Team Collaboration The collaboration of several diverse individuals as a team, especially in the business setting, and achieving the best results can often be challenging and taxing. The implementation of a positive influence plan, especially for teams that will be together for a long period, is beneficial, judicious, and wise. The plan will help produce satisfaction, high performance, and motivation for the team. The plan can help address the specific differences and how to manage those differences without taking away the advantages of the diversity. Each individual on the team brings strengths and weaknesses. If the management has this understanding, they can create a conducive workplace that promotes motivation, satisfaction, and improved performance (Robbins & Judge, 2011). Some of the specific differences that may affect team collaboration are: attitudes, emotions, values, and personalities of the team...
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...Sigmund Freud and his psychoanalytic theory of personality debated that behavior, human behavior that is, was the result of the interaction of three component parts of the mind. Those components are the id, ego, and superego. His structural theory placed great importance on the role of unconscious psychological conflicts in shaping behavior and personality. Conflicts derived from sexual and aggressive urges are very significant. Such conflicts arouse defense mechanisms, which are mainly unconscious reactions that protects oneself from painful emotions such as guilt and anxiety. Today I will be discussing some developmental stages, personality structures, and a few criticisms regarding Freud’s personality theory. The id is the primitive and instinctive component of personality. It consists of the inherited or biological components of personality, including but not limited to the sex life instinct or libido, and the death instinct. Ego develops from the id as an infant. The egos’ goal is to satisfy demands of the id in a socially safe acceptable way. In contrast to the id the ego follows the reality principle as it operates both in the conscious and unconscious mind. By the age of five, or the end of the phallic stage of development, the Superego develops. The Superego is the moral part of us and develops according to moral and ethical restraints placed on us by our caregivers. Many link the superego with the conscience as it dictates our belief of right and wrong. Freud...
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...(In this term paper I had put more stress on “Emotions in cross-culture”.) Emotions in cross-cultures: Although emotions are universal phenomena, they are affected by culture. While some emotions are universal and are experienced similarly as a reaction to similar events in all cultures but some emotions are particularly culture specific and are experienced, reacted and provoked and perceived by surrounding society in complete different manner. Though Ethnographic studies shoe considerable cultural differences, no general conclusions can be drawn regarding what cultural aspects affect emotion or to how much extend do they influence emotion. It might be the same emotion but the event that revokes that specific emotion may be different in different cultures. The way a person perceives himself in a relation with the society affects his emotions. Primary motives are common across all parts of the world. For example Hunger, Thirst is felt by every individual. But secondary motives such as success etc. depends on what society expects one to do and also external motivation which is again related to society. So in different cultures motives are also different and thus the type of arousal caused by particular motives is also different in different cultures. Culture also will have some norms regarding how one should behave for a particular emotion. Individualistic cultures does not pose May norms regarding how on should express his emotions but will have...
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...Personality Paper Joy L. Hamby PSY/405 August 14, 2013 Laraine Frajio Personality Paper Thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are characteristic patterns that make a person unique. A person’s personality is what sets them apart from the rest of the world. The uniqueness that each person possesses is called personality. Although individuals may possess similar qualities no two people can share the same personality (McLeod, 2007). The term personality was originated by the Latin word persona. A persona was in reference to a theatrical mask worn by stage performers to disguise their identities. The study of individual differences among human beings is called personality psychology. Psychologists strive for the construction of logical interpretations of individuals and their major psychological processes. The theoretical approaches when studying personality include biological theories, behavioral theories, trait theories, psychodynamic theories, and humanistic theories. The term personality is not easy to define because it a composition of so many influential aspects. One’s personal morals, values and beliefs are a combination of factors that shape and mold one’s personality. There are multiple factors that influence personality a few of these includes genetics, family, friends, close intimate relationship and social interactions....
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...To appear in: Oxford Companion to the Affective Sciences Oxford University Press Personality and Emotion William Revelle Department of Psychology Northwestern University Klaus R. Scherer Swiss Center for Affective Sciences University of Geneva Personality is the coherent patterning of affect, behavior, cognition, and desires (goals) over time and space. Just as a full blown emotion represents an integration of feeling, action, appraisal and wants at a particular time and location so does personality represent integration over time and space of these components (Ortony et al., 2005). A helpful analogy is to consider that personality is to emotion as climate is to weather. That is, what one expects is personality, what one observes at any particular moment is emotion. To understand the personality-affect link it is necessary to consider the ways in which personality may be described. Since Theophrastus’ discussion of characters and Galen’s theory of temperament (Stelmack & Stalikas, 1991), dimensional models of individual differences in personality have consistently identified three (the Giant Three, e.g., Eysenck & Eysenck (1985)) to five (the Big Five, e.g., Digman (1990)) broad dimensions of personality. Two of these dimensions, in particular, Extraversion (E) and Neuroticism (N, sometimes referred to by the other end of the dimension as Emotional Stability) have been associated with individual differences in affective level and environmental responsivity (Corr, 2008;...
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...Development psychology can be described as the scientific approach that aims at explaining how both adults and children change over time. Most proportions of theories within the discipline majorly focus on childhood development. This is so because it tends to explain the period at which more changes occurs during an individual’s lifespan. This area of psychology focuses mostly on theoretical subjects such as; cognitive, social, emotion and biological. The main goals and objectives of developmental psychology are to explain, describe and optimize human development. While describing human development, it is crucial to focus both on individual variations in change patterns and typical patterns of change. Typical change patterns are perceived as the cumulative and continual process. It is however crucial to note that people can possibly change if certain aspects of their life change too. This form of change is referred to as plasticity. For instance, a previous research had shown that somber babies raised in poorly staffed orphanages often become affectionate and cheerful when placed in a stimulating socially adoptive homes. In explaining human development, it is important to understand the contribution of certain aspects such as; nurture and nature. The aspect of nature in development refers to biological maturation and inheritance. Contrastingly, nurture refers to environment impact on human self-development. The process involves how the learning process takes place through...
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...I don't agree with this. It's possible for leader to be this kind of people, and the development of organization requires it. Personality is affected by heredity, environment, and situation. And the personality of a leader is determined by environment and situation. Environment plays an important role in shaping personality. And personality also changes with situation. The organization’s environment and situation require leaders to be trusting and astute. It also reflects emotional intelligence (EI). EI includes self-awareness (know how you feel), self-management (manage your emotions and impulses), self-motivation (can motivate yourself and persist), empathy (sense and understand what others feel), and social skill (can handle the emotions of others). Good leader should have high EI scores, which leads to high performance. Emotional quotient (EQ) is said to be a measure of a person’s emotional intelligence. Excellent leader should manage (show or hide) his emotion well through the EQ. To be open or to conceal, it depends. In which situation should a leader be open? For example, in culture knowledge management, leader should be open. It’s better for organization when employees all know and understand the organization’s culture. They will know what they can do is compatible with the organization’s culture, if it is managed well by leader. Then do it. It’s good for the development of an organization. In another case, a leader should also be straight-out when share knowledge...
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...Chapter Overview of Personality and Emotions Personality Personality is a dynamic concept describing the growth and development of a person’s whole psychological system. Personality looks at some aggregate whole that is greater than the sum of the parts. Personality is the dynamic organization within the individual of those psychophysical systems that determine his unique adjustments to his environment. Personality is the sum total of ways in which an individual reacts to and interacts with others. It is most often described in terms of measurable traits that a person exhibits. A review of the personality literature offers general guidelines that can lead to effective job performance. As such, it can improve hiring, transfer, and promotion decisions. Because personality characteristics create the parameters for people’s behavior, they give us a framework for predicting behavior. For example, individuals who are shy, introverted, and uncomfortable in social situations would probably be ill-suited as salespeople. Individuals who are submissive and conforming might not be effective as advertising “idea” people. Can we predict which people will be high performers in sales, research, or assembly-line work on the basis of their personality characteristics alone? The answer is no. Personality assessment should be used in conjunction with other information such as skills, abilities, and experience. However, knowledge of an individual’s personality can aid in reducing mismatches...
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...Sigmund Freud PSY/405 Sigmund Freud Personality Overview While Sigmund Freud’s theories were and still are extremely controversial and highly criticized, he was one of the most influential psychologists of his time. Freud’s theory of personality, developmental stages, and defense mechanisms are a few of his contributions to psychology. To further understand Freud is to also understand why his theories are criticized. His contributions and theories have brought up much debate, but have also paved the way for new theories. Theory of Personality Structure “Freud’s greatest contribution to personality theory is his exploration of the unconscious and his insistence that people are motivated primarily by drives of which they have little or no awareness” (University of Phoenix, 2009, p. 23). Before the 1920’s, Freud’s model of personality and mental life consisted of the conscious and unconscious mind; which described our thought processes and opened exploration of the unaware mind. Freud believed that people’s behaviors were motivated by things they were unaware of. Freud’s personal experiences, his readings, and exploration of his dreams influenced his understanding of human personality. Through exploration of his dreams, Freud came up with the belief that humans are motivated by things which they are unaware of. For instance, childhood memories that have been suppressed and later cause behaviors that are unexplainable. The suppressed memories are motivations for behaviors...
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...See discussions, stats, and author profiles for this publication at: http://www.researchgate.net/publication/247166550 Development and validation of a measure of emotional intelligence, Pers ARTICLE in PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES · AUGUST 1998 Impact Factor: 1.86 · DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(98)00001-4 CITATIONS 865 7 AUTHORS, INCLUDING: Lena Hall Charles J Golden Nova Southeastern University Nova Southeastern University 5 PUBLICATIONS 870 CITATIONS 238 PUBLICATIONS 2,900 CITATIONS SEE PROFILE SEE PROFILE Available from: Lena Hall Retrieved on: 22 August 2015 PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES PERGAMON Development Personalityand IndividualDifferences (1998)167-177 25 and validation of a measure of emotional intelligence Nicola S. Schutte*, John M. Malouff, Lena E. Hall, Donald J. Haggerty, Joan T. Cooper, Charles J. Golden, Liane Dornheim Undergraduate Programs, Nova Southeastern University, 3301 College Ave., Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33314, U.S.A. Received14April 1997 Abstract This series of studies describes the development of a measure of emotional intelligence based on the mode1 of emotional intelligence developed by Salovey and Mayer [Salovey, P. & Mayer, J. D. (1990). Emotional intelligence. Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 9, 185-211.1. A pool of 62 items represented the different dimensions of the model. A factor analysis of the responses of 346 participants suggested the...
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