Characteristics of Personality


Yesterday, We learnt about what is psychology and personality and  today we learn about Characteristic features of Personality.

Personality has the following dimensions
The first is psychological systems:
Personality is a system with psychological and physical aspect the interacting element in the system of trade emotions in collect temperament character and motives. These are psychological but they are based in the neurology and endorcrinology of a person's body.
The 2nd is dynamic organisation
It means different element in psychological system are independent but work in an interlocking manner they are subject to change which can happen gradually over a period of time.
Do you know we have some consistency in psychology
It means personality is a stable organisation and has element of consistency it means a person's behaviour remains the same in different situation and consistency is in behaviour is found when same situation is repeated over a period of time there are four type of consistency.

Type A consistency:
The situation and behaviour remains same in these type. For example a cricket player play match against team and players against the team after 10 days.

Type B consistency:
A person's behaviour remains the same into different situation, for example, a person appear for an interview before one selection board then he appear for interview for the same job before another board for final selection.

Type C consistency:
An individual behaves differently in the same situation for example, and actor imitating different actors on a stage.

Type D consistency:
A person behaves differently in different situation according to the situations as he is influenced by particular type of traits, for example, a person behave differently with him student, colleagues, and parents.


4th Characteristics of Personality is: Unique adjustment to Environment:

Every person has a dynamic organisation of psychological traits which make him adjust to different situation it is so because every person is unique and his reaction to the environment is also unique even identical twins with the same genetic makeup react differently to the same situation because they have different frame of references.


The 5th is Development of Personality Structure

A growing organism has the natural quality for personality development. A person goes from simple to increasingly complex factors and situations. According to Haniz Werner the metal organised of an infant expands slowly. After he interact with the environment the mental structure get crystallised and differentiated from each other after the analytics stage synthesis or integration happens when the differentiated parts get functionally organised. An integrated whole is formed from a diffused mass through progressive differentiation and then the course of development of personality structure.


Consciousness


Personality dialogues out of interaction with the environment and thus is conscious. The concept of self is formed after interaction self concept is our understanding of boom VR and but we stand for a person's response in oriented towards protection for the self - concept.
Next topic is dimensions of personality we will learn in the next class.

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