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What is your identity? Is it possible to change your identity?. PERSONALITY. Personality. The behaviors, attitudes, feelings, and ways of thinking that make you an individual. Examples??.
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What is your identity? • Is it possible to change your identity?
Personality • The behaviors, attitudes, feelings, and ways of thinking that make you an individual. • Examples??
Many researchers use five central traits to describe how people behave, relate to others, and react to change. • These five traits are:
1. EXTRAVERSION Describes how much you like being with other people. Examples???
2. AGREEABLENESS Describes your tendency to relate to other people in a friendly way. Examples ???
3. CONSCIENTIOUSNESS Describes how responsible and self disciplined you are. Examples???
4. EMOTIONAL STABILITY People who are emotionally stable tend to be relaxed, secure, and calm, even during difficult situations. Examples ???
5. OPENNESS TO EXPERIENCES People who are open to new experiences tend to be curious, imaginative, and creative. Examples ???
?? QUESTION ?? How would you describe your personality, using the five central traits?
How Personality Forms • Personality traits are influenced by: 1.Heredity 2. Environment - family - friends - culture
Stages of Personality Development • 8 stages according to Erik Erikson where personality develops throughout life as people meet a series of challenges.
1. Develop Trust • 2. Learn to be Independent • 3. Take Initiative • 4. Develop Skills • 5. Search for Identity • 6. Establish Intimacy • 7. Create and Nurture • 8. Look back with Acceptance