PERSONALITY

Presented By
Nishant Mishra
Roll No-M08080
PERSONALITY
 Personality can be defined as those inner
psychological characteristics that both
determine and reflect how a person responds
to his environment.
Nature of Personality
 Personality Reflects Individual Differences
 Personality is consists and Enduring
 Personality can change
Determination of Personality
 Biological Factors
 Cultural Factors
 Family and social factor
Biological Factor
 Heredity
 Brain
Cultural Factors
 Culture is traditionally considered as the
major determined of an individual personality.
Family and social factor
 Home environment
 Family Members
 Social Group
Theories of Personality
 Freudian Theory
 Trait Theory
Freudian Theory
 It proposed that every individual’s personality
product of a struggle among three interacting
forces-
 ID- The Id is the source strong inborn and
urges such as aggression.
 EGO-The ego comes into limitation of the ID
in dealing with the real world.
 SUPEREGO-It represents the ideal by
defining what is right or good.
Trait Theory
 A trait theory is concerned with the
construction of Personality test that pinpoint
individual differences in terms of specific
traits.