The document discusses two main factors that influence personality patterns: hereditary potentials and environmental influences. Hereditary potentials refer to genetic factors determined at conception that affect traits like intelligence and temperament. Environmental influences from significant people in one's environment like family, teachers, and peers shape the development of hereditary potentials by providing opportunities for learning and patterns to follow. The environment one is born into, including factors like family background and social context, strongly moulds personality development by affecting outlook, self-image, goals, and attitudes. Different sources of influence include home, school, media, religion, and occupation, which use techniques like child training methods and identification to shape personality.

1. Moulding the Personality Patterns

2. Moulding the Personality Patterns

3. • Two factors influence personality pattern:
• 1. Hereditary potentials
• 2. Environmental influences

4. HEREDITARY POTENTIALS
•Studies of prenatal development reveal that the foundations of the capacities for adjustment are
laid at the moment of conception.
•The prenatal period of 9 months is rightly regarded as a critical period in personality
development.
•Neither personality patterns nor the specific personality traits are directly controlled by the
genes.
•But, indirectly, the genes affect personality affecting the quality of nervous system, and the
structure of the body.
• The principle raw materials of personality– physique, intelligence and temperament– are the
foundations of personality which are genetically determined through inheritance.
• Physical capacities– energy, strength and attractiveness are also limited by inherent
characteristics.
• No two people have identical personality pattern– hereditary endowment determined at the
time of conception.

5. Environmental influences
• The development of hereditary potentials is largely
dependent on the significant people in the individual’s
environment.
• These people provide the physical and social
environment to develop.
• They also determine what opportunities the individual
will have for learning.
• The significant people will provide him pattern to
follow.

6. How the Environment Moulds Personality
The environment is the sum total of all those conditions in which a person is born, brought up, and
made to live and work. It has a strong bearing on the development of a personality on a person.
The environmental factors that intimately affects outlook ,self image ,goals, attitude and
impression of a person are heredity ,background and social backdrop.

9. When Personality Moulding Begins?

10. Sources of Moulding of Personality
Sources Of
Moulding
Home ,Peer
Group and the
community at
large
School
Media of Mass
Communication
Religion Occupation

11. Moulding
Techniques
Child Training
Method
Identification

12. Child Training Methods
The goal of the child training method is to mould the child so that he will be able to adjust to the
traditional roles prescribed by the cultural group. There exists no single philosophy of child training as
the culture keeps changing. The child training method used also depends upon the values and attitudes
of the parents and teachers of each individual child.This means wide variations in specific training
methods, even though all have the same aim of producing a well adjusted person.
Kinds of Child Training Methods
1.Authoritarian methods are characterized by the use of strict rules and regulations to enforce the
desired behaviour. Under this method,it is not considered necessary to explain why the rules and
regulations are important to the individual or to the social group. In case of failure to meet the
standards ,the individual is punished, but little praise is offered when the person does meet the
expected standards.
2.Democratic methods emphasize the needs for discussions, explanations and reasoning to help the
young understand why they are expected to behave in one way rather than another.. On achieving the
expected standards, the individual is rewarded and punishment is only given when the person wilfully
refuses to do what is expected of him, and that too ,it is in very mild form.
3.Permissive Methods are not actually child training ,though parents and teachers may regard them as
such. The young person learns more by trial and error than by guidance. In a true sense ,he is moulding
his personality himself without guidance and help from others.

13. Variations in the Child Training Methods