This document provides an overview of a personality test based on symbols. It instructs the reader to draw symbols like a triangle, square, circle, and squiggle. It then describes the personality traits typically associated with each symbol. Triangles represent leadership traits. Squares emphasize organization. Circles are kind and caring. Squiggles are creative and unique. The document also discusses what personality is made up of, factors that influence its development like nature vs nurture, and common theories of personality like Freud's and cultural determinism.

3. Lets take a personality
test!

4. Here is what you need to do for this
very simple test.
Draw EACH of the symbols one time:
the TRIANGLE, the SQUARE, the CIRCLE,
and the SQUIGGLE.

5. also draw another symbol once
Here are the descriptions for each
symbol that you have drawn two
times

6. • This personality test is based on a
theory that we tend to be attracted
to certain shapes and forms based on
our personality, our attitudes, our
education and the way our brain
functions.
NOTE!

7. Now let’s look at the symbols you
drew two times to learn what they
represent.

8. • Of the 4 symbols, the Triangle most
closely represents leadership.Triangles
are ambitious and very interested in
their careers.
• You are an OVERSEER, an expediter, a
leader, a man or woman of action.
• You are often charismatic, a person who
likes to be the boss, who likes to give
orders, who likes to be in control.
• Potential pitfalls: impatience,
aggressiveness, self-centeredness.

9. • Of the 4 symbols, the Square places the
most emphasis onorganization and
structure.
• Your mantra is ‘Get it right – if it takes all
night.’
• You enjoy collecting data and information
to enter into the database but others may
see you as having a compulsive attention
to detail.
• Your positive traits: you are organized,
knowledgeable, analytical, patient,
persevering, generally neat.
• Potential pitfalls: you may be a
procrastinator, a perfectionist, aloof,
resistant to change, meticulous.

10. • Of the 4 symbols, the Circle is the most kind
and caring about others. Your focus is to
smooth the waters and keep the peace.
• You are an OPTIMIST– you enjoy working in
league with others to get things done.
• Your mantra is harmony –'Can’t we all just
get along?'
• You express kindness, caring and concern
and are an excellent communicator because
you are an effective listener and know how
to establish empathy quickly. You are an
excellent ‘people problem solver.’
• Potential pitfalls: you may be indecisive,
moody, manipulative, have a tendency to get
too personal.

11. • Of the 4 symbols, the Squiggle is the most
unique and the most creative.
• Your mantra is get it done … differently.
• You are crazed by sex and booze. No, no,
just kidding! You are future-oriented.
• Your positive traits: You are conceptual,
creative, intuitive, expressive, motivating,
witty, inventive.
• Potential pitfalls: you may be
disorganized, impractical, unrealistic,
illogical, eccentric, naïve, uninhibited.

13. PERSONALITY

14. •Personality is the
configuration of the
total characteristic
traits (mental,
emotional and
behavioral)

15. • Refers to the sum total of
all the physical or
biological, psychological
or mental, social cultural,
emotional and spiritual;
traits of a person.
PERSONALITY

16. • Dewey and Humber (1966) look
at personality as the way by
which the individual is
interrelated through ideas,
actions and attitudes to the non
human aspects of his
environment and biological
heritage.
PERSONALITY

17. The following are what constitutes personality:
1. CHARACTER
• This pertains to the mental
traits of a person such as
intelligence, internalized
ideas, values and beliefs, line
of thinking, mental state and
perception and thoughts and
motives

18. 2. Temperament
• The hereditary aspects of
personality which are
emotional tendencies such as
sensitivity, moods, irritability,
distractibility and tolerance
level.

19. 2. Behavior
• It refers to all ways of
voluntary and involuntary
actions, reactions or response,
adjusting or coping to
different situations,

20. Factors that affects
personality development

21. NATURE VS NURTURE

22. 1. Biological Factors (Nature)
• This refer to hereditary traits
that have been passed on
genetically by parents and
ancestors

23. 2. Social Factors (Nurture)
• Social factors are
influenced by culture while
culture is influenced by the
environment

24. Geographic Environment
Cultural Environment
Social Environment

25. • The kind of geographic
environment where a
child lives can greatly
affect the kind of
personality he/she will
develop.
Geographic Environment

26. • Culture determines what
can be learned and
acquired from one’s
society; thus, a person
behaves and acts within
the premise of his culture
Cultural Environment

27. Social Environment
• Social environment refers to
the different social groups
and the social interactions
that take place in the groups
of which a person is a
participating member.

28. Theories of Personality
Development

29. 1. Freud’s Theory of Socialization
• Id
• Ego
• superego

31. 2. Cultural Determinism Theory
Franz Boas view is that
personality development is
a result of learned ways of
the group.

33. 3. Symbolic Interactionism Theory
Personality is the result of
the interaction between
individuals mediated by
symbols or language.

35. 4. Biological Determinism
This theory views the
inherited biological
structures as the main factor
that determines human
behavior.

37. 5. Labelling Theory
Personality is viewed as the
result of society’s labeling
on human behavior as
either good or bad.

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