4. Personality:
“Characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling and acting.”
OR
“The unique and relatively stable patterns of
behavior, thoughts and emotions shown by
individuals.”
11. Some Terms of Personality:
Personality: a person’s internally based characteristic way of acting
and thinking
Character: Personal characteristics that have been judged or
evaluated
Temperament: Hereditary aspects of personality, including
sensitivity, moods, irritability, and distractibility
Personality Trait: Stable qualities that a person shows in most
situations
Personality Type: People who have several traits in common
13. Locus of Control
Locus of Control
The degree to which people believe they are
masters of their own fate.
Internals
Individuals who believe that they control what
happens to them.
Externals
Individuals who believe that what happens to them
is controlled by outside forces such as luck or chance.
14. Machiavellianism
Machiavellianism (Mach)
Degree to which an individual is pragmatic,
maintains emotional distance, and believes that ends
can justify means
Conditions Favoring High Machs
•Direct interaction
•Minimal rules and regulations
•Emotions distract for others
15. Self-Esteem
Self-Esteem (SE)
Individuals’ degree of liking or disliking themselves.
The degree to which a person has a positive self-
evaluation.
People with high self-esteem have favourable self-images.
People with low self-esteem have unfavourable self-
images.
21. We can discuss only 4 types
Extroverts vs. Introverts types:
Sensing vs. Intuitive types:
Thinking vs. feelings types:
Judging vs. perceiving types:
22. What is your most natural energy orientation?
Extrovert
Act first, think/reflect later
Feel deprived when cutoff
from interaction with the
outside world
Usually open to and
motivated by outside world
of people and things
Enjoy wide variety and
change in people and
relationships
Introvert
Think/reflect first, then Act
Regularly require an amount
of “private time” to recharge
batteries
Motivated internally, mind is
sometimes so active it is
“closed” to the outside world
Prefer one-to-one communi-
cation and relationships
28. Which way of perceiving or understanding is most
automatic or natural?
Sensing
Mentally live in the Now,
attending to present
opportunities
Use common sense and
creating practical solutions is
automatic-instinctual
Best improvise from past
experience
Like clear and concrete
information; dislike guessing
when facts are “fuzzy”
iNtuitive
Mentally live in the Future;
attending to future
possibilities
Using imagination and
creating/inventing new
possibilities is automatic-
instinctual
Best improvise from
theoretical understanding
Comfortable with ambiguous,
fuzzy data and with guessing
its meaning
31. Which way of forming judgments and making choices
is most natural?
Thinking
Makes decisions based on
objective analysis and
logic.
Logical analysis.
Impersonal criteria
Feeling
Makes decisions based on
personal and social
values.
Understand other’s point
of view.
Personal circumstances.
35. What is your “action orientation” towards the outside
world?
Judging
Plan many of the details in
advance before moving into
action
Focus on task-related action;
complete meaningful segments
before moving on
Work best and avoid stress when
able to keep ahead of deadlines
Naturally use targets, dates, and
standard routines to manage life
Perceiving
Comfortable moving into action
without a plan; plan on-the-go
Like to multitask, have a variety,
mix work and play
Naturally tolerant of time
pressure; work best close to
deadlines
Instinctively avoid commitments
which interfere with flexibility,
freedom, and variety