MALLIG PLAINS COLLEGES, INC.

CASILI, MALLIG, ISABELA FOUNDATIONS OF EDUCATION

BY: MARIE JOY LUCZON ALINGOG

PERSONALITY
● The combination of characteristics or qualities that form an individual's
distinctive character.

● The term personality is derived from Latin word “PERSONA” which means TO
SPEAK THROUGH THE TERM DENOTED THE MASK .

● Personality means habits, traits, attitudes and ideas of individual. Individual

differences among people in behavior patterns, cognition and emotion.
 ● According to Hilgard,
“personality is the sum total of
individual characteristics and
ways of behaving which in their
organization or patterning
describe an individual’s unique
adjustment to his environment.”

● Ruch defines personality as a

“particular pattern or
organization of traits both inner
and outer one’s.
● To Morgan, it is the “study of the ●
individual as a whole and of the
interplay between him and other
individuals in the normal cause of
living.”
Kagan and Havemann say that
personality is the “total pattern of
characteristic ways of behaving and
thinking that constitute the individual’s
unique and distinctive method of
adjusting to his environment.”
 PERSONALITY is ..

● (1) the sum total of all a

person’s traits or what he is;

● (2) the total impression an

individual makes upon people
around him;

● (3) “the fundamental

organization of the individual
laid down by heredity
interacting with a complex and
social world.”
 What traits make up personality?
They are:

(1) Physical or biological traits, such

as appearance, height, weight, color
of hair, eyes, etc.

(2) Mental or intellectual traits, such

as intelligence, special talents, and

Components abilities in music, art, etc.

(3) Social traits, such as good

of manners, good mixer, loner, etc.

Personality ( 4) Moral traits, such as honesty,

sincerity, punctuality. etc
 Why is personality important?

A great deal of a person’s success

in his work, his home life, his
relations with others, depends on
his personality.

Importance of
Personality
To improve personality, however, it is necessary to:
(1) Determine what traits should be improved or acquired.
(2) Have the will power to change or improve.
(3) Practice the traits and strive to make no exception.
 Theories
of
Personality
HIPPOCRATES
WILLIAM SHELDON
Carl Jung
What
personality are
you?
Ernst Krechmer
Sigmund Freud
 Alfred Adler
According to Adler the helpless baby
has an inferiority complex. In the
course of normal development, he
outgrows these feelings of inferiority.
To compensate for early
helplessness, he becomes aggressive
and ambitious in a destructive sense
and may develop a superiority
complex.
 Karen Horney also
rejected Freud and
advocated basic
anxiety as basic
factor in human
personality.

According to
Horney, a child may
cope with insecurity in
a hostile world in one

Karen Horney of these three ways :

Erich Fromm
 Social
Learning
Theories
Maslov’s Self-actualization Theory
1. The basic forces in personality are 2. Identification and
motives and habits which are learned imitation play an important
in childhood. They are important role in personality
influences in adult behavior. development.

Theories of personality agree on the following:

Similarities and Differences among Theories

The theories disagree on the following:

1. The motive that is most important
component of personality - Freud , it is
sexuality. To Adler it is superiority; to
Maslov, it is self-actualization; to the social
theorists, it is need for praise & reward.
2. There is also disagreement on the kind
of behavior emphasized. The
psychoanalists emphasize behavior while
the others emphasize overt behavior.
 Implications for Learning:
1. Personality is made up of inherited and acquired traits and therefore it can be improved..
2. Since imitation and identification are processes in personality development, good
models; i.e. good teachers should be provided for children and youth.
3. Since many personality traits are acquired through habit formation, attention should be
given to the early years of childhood so that only good habits are formed.
4, Children and youth should be taught to distinguish worthwhile traits from those that are
not.
5. Since people differ in more ways than one, it is important to know how to get along with
different personalities.
 Implications for Learning:
6. Teachers should accept all children/youth no matter what type of personality they have.
7. Through education traits of personality can be developed, changed, acquired or revised.
8. The kind of individuals schools turn out may be influenced by the kind of education they
get.
9. Since society is made up of individuals, to change or create a new society depends
upon the personalities of the people composing the group.
10. The personality pattern is related to the behavior pattern.
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CASILI, MALLIG, ISABELA FOUNDATIONS OF EDUCATION

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Submitted by:
MARIE JOY RAMOS LUCZON- ALINGOG
Submitted to:
Maam Felonila Catuiza