Personality Development

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Personality Development
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Personality total of all behaviors, attitudes,
beliefs, and values that characterize an
individual.

• Completely unique
• Adjust to environment
• Appears as child
• Stabilizes as get older
• Can change

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Nature

• Heredity characteristics genetically inherited
  from parents
• Instinct unchanging, biologically inherited
  pattern of behavior
• Sociobiology study of biology as the basis for
  all human behavior

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Nurture

• Social environment
• Learning

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MAIN INFLUENCES ON PERSONALITY
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Birth Order

• Siblings or not, male or female
• First Born
• Achievement oriented
• Cooperative and cautious
• Conservative, Status Quo
• Later Born
• Social
• Affectionate, friendly, creative
• Risk takers, social intellectual rebels

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Parental Characteristics

• Age of Parents
• Level of Education
• Religion
• Economic Status
• Culture
• Occupation

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Cultural Environment

• Basic type of personality
• Ik of Uganda
• Experience culture gender
• Subcultures
• Region
• neighborhood

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Heredity

• Characteristics present at birth physical
• Aptitude ability to learn skill or knowledge
• Natural talent or learned
• Parental response
• Basic needs
• Sets limits on what is possible
• Not sole factor

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Isolation Institutions

• Anna Isabelle pg. 102
• Institutions pg. 106