Human Personality

A PowerPoint presentation of

Mr. Kenneth June S. PototEnglish Teacher

G. Jurado Foundation School, Inc.

One day, there was a man who searched for his true character…

He looked the mirror and asked himself. “Who am I?”

It’s your pattern of thoughts…

And the mirror answered…

It’s your feelings and behaviors consistently

exhibited by an individual over time that strongly

influence our expectations

It’s your self-perceptions, values

and attitudes

And it’s your reactions to people, problems and stress…

that make you as you. And that shape your personality that

makes up yourself.

Personality

Defined by Wikipedia as a dynamic and organized set of characteristics possessed by a person that uniquely influences his or her cognitions, emotions, motivations, and

behaviors in various situations.

The word "personality"

originates from the

Latin persona, which

means mask.

What makes up a personality of an

individual?

Heredity & Environment are

the two components in

building the personality of an

individual

Have you ever asked yourself?

To whom I got this nose?

My mouth?

How about my eyes?

When I discover that….

This is my father

This is my mother

I finally found myself suffering from the beauty generated by these two

individuals

The Product of two strange bodies

This presentation discusses the

nature of heredity

What is Heredity in other words?

Nature Theory: Heredity

An idea referring to the natural way of transmitting a set of

characteristics from generation to generation

Nature Theory takes things a step further to say that more

abstract traits such as intelligence, personality, aggression, and sexual

orientation are also encoded in an individual's DNA.

What is the other way in shaping man’s

personality

Nurture Theory: Environment

Supporters of this theory believe that the influence of

environment makes up a personality of an individual.

These two theories create a debate as to

which particular aspects of behavior are a product of either

inherited or acquired characteristics.

The Nature-Nurture Debate would come in between in the

field of human behavior

Those who adopt an extreme heredity position are known as nativists.  Their basic

assumption is that the characteristics of the human

species as a whole are a product of evolution and that individual differences are due

to each person’s unique genetic code. 

Characteristics and differences that are not observable at birth, but which emerge later in life, are regarded as the product of

maturation. That is to say we all have an inner “biological clock” which switches on (or off) types

of behavior in a pre programmed way.

The classic example of the way this affects our physical

development are the bodily changes that occur in early

adolescence at puberty.  However nativists also argue that maturation governs the emergence of attachment in infancy, language acquisition

and even cognitive development as a whole

At the other end of the spectrum are the environmentalists – also known as empiricists (not to be

confused with the other empirical /scientific approach).  Their basic assumption is that at

birth the human mind is a tabula rasa (a blank slate)

and that this is gradually “filled” as a result of experience (e.g.

behaviorism).

Hierarchy of

Human Needs

Psychologist Abraham Maslow first introduced his

concept of a hierarchy of needs in his 1943 paper "A Theory of Human Motivation" and his

subsequent book Motivation and Personality. This hierarchy suggests that people are

motivated to fulfill basic needs before moving on to other, more

advanced needs.

Thank you for your indulgence