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GEd101 Week1

This document discusses self-understanding and personality. It defines personality as relatively permanent traits that give consistency and individuality to a person's behavior. Personality is shaped by environmental, biological, situational, and cultural factors. The five-factor model of personality identifies the traits of openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. Understanding oneself involves developing self-concept through self-discovery and understanding one's motives through self-understanding.

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GEd101 Week1

This document discusses self-understanding and personality. It defines personality as relatively permanent traits that give consistency and individuality to a person's behavior. Personality is shaped by environmental, biological, situational, and cultural factors. The five-factor model of personality identifies the traits of openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. Understanding oneself involves developing self-concept through self-discovery and understanding one's motives through self-understanding.

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GEd 101 - Understanding the Self

WEEK 1

Self-Understanding
- provides a sense of purpose
- leads to healthier relationships (love is a union of two people but still, people in a relationship
should still have their individuality)
- promotes confidence
- helps harness your natural strength

Personality
- the ethymological derivative comes from the latin word “persona” (per and sonare which
literally means to sound through) , the theatrical masks worn by Romans in Greek and Latin
Drama.
- a relatively permanent traits and unique characteristics that gives both consistency and
individuality to a person’s behavior.
- plays a key role in affecting how people share their lives.
- involves the complex relationship of people with their environment, how they cope and adjust
through life, and how they respond to demands of physical and social challenges.
- overall pattern or integration of a person’s structure, modes of behavior, attitudes, aptitudes,
interests, intellectual abilities, and many other distinguishable personality traits.
- conglomeration of the following components: physical self, intelligence, character traits,
attitudes, habits, interest, personal discipline, moral values, principles and philosophies of life.

Determinants of Personality
Environmental Factors of Personality
- neighborhood, school, college, university, workplace, friends, parents, colleagues, & co-
workers and bosses.
Biological Factors of Personality
- hereditary factors (the tendency of the person to appear and behave the way their parents are)
- physical features (height, weight, color, time, and so does the personality)
- brain (better understanding of human personality and behavior)
Situational Factors of Personality
- do alter a person’s behavior and response from time to time
- commonly observed when a person behave contrastingly and exhibits different traits and
characteristics.
Cultural Factors of Personality
- a major determinants of an individual’s personality.
- what a person is and what a person will learn.

Personality Traits
- reflects people’s characteristic pattern of thoughts, feelings, and behavior.

The Five-Factor Model of Personality


Openness
- the tendency to appreciate new art, ideas, values, feelings, and behaviors.
Conscientiousness
- the tendency to be careful, on-time for appointments, to follow rules, and to be hardworking.
Extraversion
- the tendency to be talkative, sociable, and to enjoy others; the tendency to have a dominant
style.
Agreeableness
- the tendency to agree and go along with others rather than to assert one owns opinions and
choices.
Neurotism
- the tendency to be frequently experience negative emotions such as anger, worry, and
sadness, as well as being interpersonal sensitive.

NOTE: Understanding of who you are as a person is called self-concept and understanding what
your motives are when you act is called self-understanding.

Self-Concept
- generally thought of as our individual perceptions of our behavior, abiities, and unique
characteristics.
- tends to be more malleable when people are younger and still going through the process of
self-discovery and identity formation.
- a collection of beliefs one holds about oneself and the responses of others.

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