This PPT Prepared by Teacher Educator from Thiagarajar College of Preceptors Madurai for B.Ed Trainees.

1. Personality Development
T.Gnanaprakasam,
Assistant Professor,
Thiagarajar College of Preceptors.

2.  Major factors affect the
development of
personality.

3. What is personality?
 Common answer
 Characteristics of a
person
 Nice
 Good looking
 Social skills
 Polite
 funny

4. What is personality?
 Sociologists say
 Sum total of behaviors, attitude, beliefs, and
values that are characteristic of an individual.
 Personality traits
 Determine how we adjust
 To our environment
 How we react in specific situations

5. Personalities over time
 Personalities constantly change during the
first half of a person’s life.
 Find new interests
 Like new things
 Personalities change for all sorts of reasons
 2 largest reasons
 Nature
 Nurture

6. Nature vs. Nurture
 Heredity
 The transmission of
genetic characteristics
from parents to children.
 Social environment
 Contact with other people

7. Nature’s Argument
 Most human behavior is instinct in origin.
 Instinct
 an unchanging, biologically inherited behavior pattern.
 Birds = building nests
 Birds = migrate in winter
 This leads to humans having 10,000 instincts:
 Laugh
 Smile
 breath

8. Nurture’s Argument
 A person’s behavior
and personality are the
result of his or her
social environment and
learning
 Pavlov’s Dog
experiment
 Developed an
unconditional response

9. 4 major factors that shape individual
personality development
parents
Birth order
Cultural
environment
heredity
Personality

10. Heredity
 Characteristics present at
birth.
 Body build
 Hair type
 Eye color
 Skin pigmentation
 Aptitudes
 A capacity to learn a
particular skill or acquire a
particular body of
knowledge.
 Natural talents
 Sports
 Music

11. Birth Order
 Personalities are influenced
by whether we have
siblings:
 1st born
 Achievement oriented
 Middle child
 More affectionate but
confused
 Last child
 Risk takers
 Intellectual rebels

12. Parental Characteristics
 A parents personality
directly impacts a
child’s personality
 Hate
 Anger
 Happiness
 politeness

13. Cultural Environment
 Cultural environment
determines
 Basic types of
personalities found in
society.

14. Isolations of children
 Feral children
 Wild or untamed children
 Can children develop on
their own with no help?

15. 1938 “Anna”
 Born to unmarried woman
 Grandfather locked her in
the attic
 Only fed her once a day
 No interaction
 Found in 1938 by social
worker
 Could not
 Walk
 Talk
 Feed herself
 No facial expressions

16. Isabelle
 Born to unmarried woman
 Grandfather locked her and
Mother in the attic
 Only fed her once a day
 Interaction with mom only
 Found in 1960 by social
worker
 Could not
 Talk
 Walk
 eat with her hands

17. Thank You