this presentation explains the basic things about personality

2.  Ordinary conversation personality means
external appearance
 In philosophy personality means the self
 In psychology personality means neither
external appearance nor the self only, but it
includes both and much more.

3.  The word personality derived from the Latin
word persona means mask, used by the
actors to change their appearance, but in
roman period it was taken to mean the actor

4. Personality is the dynamic organization within
the individual of those psycho-physical
systems that determine his unique
adjustment to his environment.
G.W.Allport

5.  An analysis of the above definition shows that
1.personality is dynamic
2.personality is an organized set
3.personality includes physical ,mental and
emotional traits.
4.personality is unique
5.personality is adjustment to one’s
environment.

6.  An inherited or innate psycho-physical
disposition which determines its possessor to
perceive or to pay attention to objects of
certain class, to experience an emotional
excitement of a particular quality and to act
in regard to it in a particular manner or
atleast to experience an impulse to such an
action.

7.  Escape
 Fight
 Repulsion
 Curiosity
 Parental instinct
 Construction
 Acquisition
 Gregariousness
 Sex
 Self assertion , appeal
 Self abasement , food seeking ,laughter

8.  Instinctive behaviour is innate
 It is only a tendency to act
 Instincts are universal
 All instinctive activities are directed to the
well being of the individual
 Instinctive activity is not purely mechanical,
intelligence is also involved in it.
 Instincts are subject to modification

9.  Instinct provide the driving force for action
 If instinct is left by itself it might lead to
undesirable behaviour
 So some sort of control is necessary
 Aim of education is to modify them and direct
them into healthy channels so that they may
lead to socially desirable form of behaviour.
 The development of character and personality
depends on sublimation of instincts

10.  A term frequently used as a synonym of
personality
 It said that personality is intelligence plus
character
 john Adam writes character is the moral
estimate of the individual, an evaluation.

11.  Like intelligence and physique, may be said to
designate a certain class of raw material from
which personality is fashioned.
 Temperament is the affective nature of an
individual

12.  Are different dimensions of personality or its
qualities
 Woods worth says, a trait is some particular
quality of behaviour which characterizes the
individual in a wide range of his activities
,and which is fairly consistent over a period
of time.

13.  All personality traits will have influence on
the behaviour patterns of an individual.
 But the behaviour of each individual is mainly
influenced by one or more strong and in-
depth specific trait or a set of traits. The
influence of such trait will be reflected in all
behaviors of the individual. they said to be
the robust personality trait of that individual
 Eg:-a strong philosophical adherence to non
violence and sincere social commitment were
the robust traits of Gandhiji’s personality

14.  Behaviour-integration of traits->personality
 Different traits acts independently-
>unbalanced behaviour
 Non integration of personality will allow
different traits act independently, without any
co-ordination
 The chaos and confusion in this case would
result in the creation of the maladjusted
person.