personality

What is personality?
 Personality is a combination of some features
which makes the person unique.

 Personality arises from within the individual.

 Personality is consistent.

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 Characteristics of personality
 Consistency.

 Psychological and physiological.

 Impact behavior and actions.

 Multiple expressions.

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 Theories of personality

1. Trait theories:- These theories viewed

personality as the result of internal
characteristics that are genetically based.

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 Big five traits of personality are:-

 Open to experience.

 Conscientiousness.

 Extraversion.

 Agreeableness.

 Neuroticism.
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2. Type theories:- It refers to the psychological
classification of different types of people
theories

It includes type A an type B personalities:

 Type A personalities are workaholics, always

busy, driven, somewhat impatient, and so on.
 
 Type B personalities, on the other hand are
laid back and easy going. 
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 Characterstics of Type A and type B
personalities.
Type A’s -
 are always moving, walking, and eating rapidly.
 feel impatient with the rate at which most events
take place.
 strive to think or do two or more things at once.
 cannot cope with leisure time.
 are obsessed with numbers, measuring their
success in terms of how many or how much of
everything they acquire.
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Type B’s -
 never suffer from a sense of time urgency with
its accompanying impatience.
 feel no need to display or discuss either their
achievements or accomplishments.
 play for fun and relaxation, rather than to
exhibit their superiority at any cost.
 can relax without guilt.

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3. Psychoanalitic theory: It explains human
behavior in terms of the interaction of various
components of personality.
-Freud divides human personality into three
significant components:-
 id
 ego
 superego.

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4. Behaviorists theory:- This theory explain
personality in terms of the effects external
stimuli have on behavior.

Stimulus Response Consequence Model

5. Humanists theory:- It emphasizes the

importance of free will and individual
experience in the development of personality.

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