PERSONA :)

PERSONA = HOW DO YOU APPEAR TO OTHERS ?

WHY WE MUST STUDY PERSONALITY ?

- to understand people

- personality is a central topic of psychology

- aims to undersatnd causes of behaviour in ourselves and others by attributing unique individual characteristics.


WHAT IS PERSONALITY ?

" AN INDIVIDUAL'S CHARACTERISTIC PATTERN OF DOING, THINKING, FEELING "

- personality is an abstract concept, like intelligence, that cannot be seen, touched or directly measured.

- personality is one's relatively dinstinctive and consistent pattern of thinking , feeling and acting.

- a person's general style of interacting with the world.

- differences between people which are relatively consistent over time and place.

PERSONALITY DEFINED :

PERSONALITY IS THE SET OF PSYCHOLOGICAL TRAITS AND MECHANISMS WITHIN THE INDIVIDUAL THAT IS ORGANIZED AND RELATIVELY ENDURING AND THAT INFLUENCES HIS OR HER INTERACTIONS WITH AND ADAPTATIONS TO, THE ENVIRONMENT ( INCLUDING THE INTERAPSYCHIS, PHYSICAL AND SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT )


PERSONALITY APPLICATIONS.

- Personality is used in predicting and understanding behaviour for research, theraphy and guidance.

- Personality is closed related/applied to :

- developmental psychology
- clinical, forensic and neuropsychology
- social psychology
- vocational counselling
- personal selection


3 LEVELS OF PERSONALITY ANALYSIS :


1) INDIVIDUAL LEVEL - uniqueness, genetic, endowment, nonshared, experiences.

2) GROUP LEVEL - similarities and differences

3) HUMAN NATURE LEVEL - common life experiences
- biological and physical similarities
- self awareness
- ability to see symbol

INDIVIDUALS CAN BE STUDIED IN TWO WAYS :


1) NOMOTHETICALLY : as individual instances of general characteristics that are distributed in the population.

2) IDIOGRAPHICALLY : as single and unique cases.