PERSONAL 


HUMAN DEVELOPMENT AND PERSONAL
DEVELOPMENT
KNOWING ONESELF

DEVELOPMENT  DEVELOPING THE WHOLE PERSON

LEARNING
OBJECTIVES:
1. K – Define self, personality, feelings, and emotions.
2. K – Explain that knowing themselves can make a person
accept their strengths and limitations and deal with others
better
3. U – Evaluate his/her own thoughts, feelings, and
behaviors
4. D – Illustrate the connections between thoughts, feelings
and behaviors in actual life situations
“SELF-MADE
MAN”

Source: “Self-Made Man” by Bobbie Carlyle at

Quent Cordair Fine Art from August Turak’s
Article in Forbes Magazine
 THREE ASPECTS OR DOMAIN OF
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
1. Physical Development

2. Cognitive Development

3. Psychological Development
Physical
Development
Covers the growth of the
body and the brain, motor
and sensory skills, and even
physical health
 Cognitive
Development
Covers the capacity to learn,
to speak, to understand, to
reason, and to create
 Psychological Development
Includes social interactions with other
people, emotions, attitudes, self-identity,
personality, beliefs, and values
 INFLUENCING FACTORS OF HUMAN
DEVELOPMENT
1. Heredity

2. Environment

3. Maturation
 Example of how heredity influences Human
Development

PHYSICAL MENTAL
Heredity 1. Hair Color 1. Memory
2. Eye Color 2. IQ Scores
The inborn traits 3. Gender 3. Language
passed on by the 4. Height Acquisition
5. Weight 4. Mental
generations of
6. Tone of Voice Retardation
offspring from both
sides of the EMOTIONAL
1. Extroversion
biological parents’ 2. Shyness
families 3. Anxiety
 Environme
nt
The world outside of Example of how environment influences
ourselves and the Human Development
experiences that 1. Nutrition
result from our 1. Housing
2. Climate
contact and 3. Culture
interaction with this 4. Pollution
5. Bacterial Diseases
external world
 Maturati
on
The natural progression of Example of how maturation influences Human
the brain and the body that Development
affects the cognitive
(thinking and 1. Learning to walk
2. Learning to talk
intelligence), 3. Attitudes towards social groups
psychological (emotion, 4. Preparing for marriage and family life
attitude, and self-identity), 5. Problem solving
and social (relationships)
 Is it Personal or Personality
Development?
 How is PERSONAL being
It isdefined?
defined as:
1. Belonging of relating to a particular person
2. Made or designed to be used by one person
3. Someone whose job involves working for or
helping a particular person
4. Or, relating to, or affecting a particular person
 Examples of sentences that pertain to the word
"personal":
1. This is just my personal opinion.
2. I can only tell you what I know from personal
experience.
3. We do not accept personal checks.
 How is PERSONALITY being
Itdefined?
is defined as:
1. Attractive qualities (such as energy, friendliness, and
humor) that make a person interesting or pleasant to be
with
2. The set of emotional qualities, ways of behaving, etc., that
makes a person different from other people
3. Attractive qualities that make something unusual or
interesting
 Examples of sentences that pertain to the word
"personality":
1. He has a very pleasant personality.
2. We all have different personalities.
3. He has many personality.
4. He wants to buy a car that has personality.
5. She has met many television personalities.
 How is DEVELOPMENT
Itbeing
is defined defined?
as:
1. The act or process of growing or causing something to
grow or become larger or more advanced
2. The act or process of creating something over a period of
time
3. The state of being created or made more advanced
 Psychology and Personal
Development
 What are the different psychological
theories of personal development?
 Humanis
This illustration depicts
Leonardo da Vinci’s
t Vitruvian Man
representing his own
reflection on human
proportion and
architecture,
superimposed on a human
head to represent
 TWO PROPONENTS OF HUMAN
PSYCHOLOGY
1. Abraham Maslow 2. Carl Rogers
 Abraham
Maslow
Theorized the five stages
of human development
based on a hierarchy of
needs, peaking in what he
termed as “self-
actualization”
 MASLOW’S HIERARCHY OF
NEEDS
 Carl Rogers
Theorized that “the
individual has within
himself the capacity
and the tendency, latent
if not evident, to move
forward toward
maturity”
 CARL ROGER’S PERSONALITY
THEORYBASIC HUMAN OTHERS’
RESULT
NEEDS RESPONSES

Need for Unconditional

Self-
self- positive
actualization
actualization regard

Need for Conditional

Self-
positive positive
discrepancies
regard regard
 Personal Development in
Adolescence
 How do you define
adolescence?
Adolescence is the
transition period between
childhood and early
adulthood. It starts with
the biological changes
called puberty.
 What are the three stages of
adolescence?
1. Early Adolescence

2. Middle Adolescence

3. Late Adolescence
 EARLY
ADOLESCENCE
 between 10 and 13 years of age
 change in physical characteristics (height,
facial hair for boys and start of periods for
girls)
 developed in the abilities to think, learn,
reason and remember
 developed in emotions, expressions,
attachment and sociability
 MIDDLE
ADOLESCENCE
 between 14 and 16 years of age
 urgency for freedom (independence)
 change in voice, increase need for sleep, and
appetite increase
 developed in new thinking skills through humor
and by arguing with parents and others
 worrying about what others think about them,
grooming and exercising, frequent mode swings
 LATE
 betweenADOLESCENCE
17 and 20 years of age
 physically and emotionally mature
 can fully express ideas and consider other
points of view
 could gain financial independence
 future goals become defined
 seek one-on-one committed relationships and
intimacy
 HOLISTIC
DEVELOPMENT
 Holistic
It Development
pertains to whole person, emphasizing the complete
aspects of a person or his totality.

•Dualism and holism are philosophical theories in order

to understand what it means to perceive a person as a
whole organism.
MIND AND BODY DUALISM OF
DESCARTES •Rene Descartes, one of the
modern philosophers of our
time, influenced much of
mankind’s thinking with his
theory of duality or
understanding the nature of
things in a simple, dual mode.
•In dualism,people perceive
THE YIN-YANG
SYMBOL
 An example of dualism is the
distinct male-female gender
categorization or the yin and
yang of eastern thought.

 Western culture
overemphasizes its either-or,
black-white characteristics.
 THE YIN-YANG
SYMBOL
There is dynamism between two
forces in nature, and that each
force is present in each other
and will never exist in its purest
form.
More examples of
Dualism
• Good-bad
• Racial purity
• Life-death
• Other points of view where things are
taken in their absolutes or extremes.
 HOLISM AND
GESTALT
In 1926, General Jan C.
Smuts, a South African
statesman, military leader,
and philosopher, wrote
about holism in his book
Holism and Evolution. Gen. Jan C. Smuts
 HOLISM AND
GESTALT
Holism - the tendency in nature to form wholes
which are greater than the sum of the parts
through creative evolution.
Gestalt – something that is made of many parts
and yet is somehow more than or different from
the combination of its parts; broadly, the general
quality or character of something.
In
understanding
humans, it is
important to
see the person
in his entirety
and not just
his parts.
 Nature, Nurture and
Personality
 SEL
The being, which is The agent
the source of F a responsible for an
person’s individual’s thoughts
consciousness and actions
 PERSONALI
The set ofTY
The essence of who we
behaviors, feelings, are and is the
thoughts, and embodiment of one’s
motives that physical,
identifies an psychological,
individual cognitive, affective,
 Personality Based on Psychologist

“The unique and relatively enduring set of behaviors,

feelings, thoughts, and motives that characterize an
individual”

“A pattern of habits, attitudes, and traits that determine

an individual’s characteristics, behavior, and traits”
 Two Components of
Personality
• The uniqueness of an individual’s thoughts, feelings,
and behavior

• Their (thoughts, feelings, and behavior) being

relatively enduring, or being consistent, over
different situations and over time
 Interplay of Nature, Nurture,
Personality
 EMOTION
• Emotion is taken from the Latin verb, movare, which
means to move or be upset or agitated. It is defined
by Smith (1973) as a descriptive term referring to
variations in level of arousal, affective state or mood,
expressive movements, and attitudes (Sanchez, Abad,
and Jao 2012).
 SIX BASIC EMOTIONS (PAUL
EKMAN)
happiness
sadness fear

anger
surprise disgust
 FEELINGS and
Feeling EMOTION
arises from the brain as it interprets an
emotion, which is usually caused by physical
sensations experienced by the body as a reaction to a
certain external stimulus.

An example of this would be the emotion of being

afraid, which produces a feeling of fear.
 ATTITUDES and
•Attitudes BEHAVIOR
are a person’s thoughts, feelings, and
emotions about another person, object, idea, behavior,
or situation.
•Attitude is a result of a person’s evaluation of an
experience with another person, object, idea, behavior,
or situation based on his or her values and belief
systems.
 ATTITUDES and
•Beliefs BEHAVIOR
and certain values therefore, affect the
attitude of a person.

•Behavior is a manifestation or acting out of the

attitudes an individual has.
ATTITUDES and
BEHAVIOR
Values and Virtues
 VALUES and VIRTUES
 At the core of every person lies a
system of beliefs that adheres to the
highest ideals of human existence.

 These ideals create meaning and

purpose in a person’s life. These
ideals are called values.
 UNIVERSAL VALUES
• Peace
• Freedom
• Social progress
• Equal rights
• Human dignity
 5 CORE VALUES FOR
WORKPLACE
• Integrity
• Accountability
• Diligence
• Perseverance
• Discipline
 10 BASIC HUMAN
VALUES
1. Self-Direction - independent thought and action;
choosing, creating, and exploring

2. Stimulation – excitement, novelty, and challenge

in life

3. Hedonism – pleasure and sensuous gratification

for oneself
4. Achievement – personal success through
demonstrating competence according to social standards

5. Power – social status and prestige, and control or

dominance over people and resources
6. Security – safety, harmony, and stability of
society, of relationships, and of self

7. Conformity – restraint of actions, inclinations, and impulses that are

likely to upset or harm others and violate social expectations or norms
8. Tradition – respect, commitment, and acceptance of the
customs and ideas that traditional culture or religion
provide the self

9. Benevolence – preserving and enhancing the

welfare of those with whom one is in frequent
personal contact (the ‘in-group’)

10. Universalism – understanding, appreciation, tolerance,

and protection for the welfare of all people and of nature
10 GROUPS OR VALUES
1. Universalism 6. Power
2. Benevolence 7. Achievement
3. Tradition 8. Hedonism
4. Conformity 9. Stimulation
5. Security 10. Self-direction
VALUES are influenced
• Gender by:
• Age
• Social background
• Educational attainment
 VIRTUES
are adjectives that describe
positive and desirable
qualities which usually
mirror a value it represents.
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