Personality:

Personality:

Defined:

• The sum total of way in which an individual reacts and interact with others.
• Measurable traits that a person exhibits.
• Rather than looking at part of the person, personality looks at some aggregate whole that is greater than the sum of the parts.

Personality:

• Some people quiet and passive.
• Some people loud and aggressive
• Better adapted for certain jobs
• Psychologist Talks:
• Dynamic concept describing growth and development of person’s whole psychological system
• Definition by Gordon Allport:
• “The dynamic organization with in the individual of those psychological systems that determine his unique adjustment to his environment”

Personality Determinants: Heredity, Environment, Situation

Heredity: factors that were determined at conception (Conceived)

• Physical structure, facial attractiveness, gender, temperament, muscle, reflexes, energy, biological rhythms
• Completely or substantially influenced by who your parents are?
• The heredity approach argues that the ultimate explanation of an individual’s personality is molecular structure of the genes, located in chromosomes.

Environment:

• Culture in which we are raised.
• Our early conditioning
• Norms among our family, friends, and social group.
• North Indians: Aggressive, Industrious, competitive, ambitious, enterprising
• South Indians: preserve and devote themselves to classical arts, music, literature

Situation:

• Influence on environment and heredity effects
• Generally stable and consistence, but personality does changes according to demand of situations
• Temple, job interview: Constrain many behavior
• Picnic in Public Park: constrain few behaviors.

 (Ref: Organization Behavior- S.P. Robins)