PERSONALITY

DEVELOPMEN
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 • The behaviors that make people
different from one another are
those behaviors that
psychologists consider to be at
the root of personality.
PERSONALITY • Personality is what makes a
DEVELOPMENT person a unique person and it is
recognizable soon after birth.
 • Personality: Refers to the relatively
enduring characteristics that differentiate
one person from another and that lead
people to act in a consistent and predictable
manner, both in different situations and over
Personality extended periods of time.
• It is a distinctive and relatively stable pattern
of behaviors, thoughts, motives, and
emotions that characterizes an individual.
 Personality
• Personality development is the development of the organised pattern of behaviours and
attitudes that makes a person distinctive.
• This development occurs due to ongoing interaction of temperament, character and
environment.
 • Psychoanalytic: Unconscious
motivations.

Personality
• Trait: Specific dimensions of
personality.
• Humanistic: Inner capacity for growth.

theory • Social-Cognitive: Influence of

environment.