CHER
CONTENT STANDARD
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PERFORMANCE STANDARD
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MOST ESSENTIAL LEARNING
COMPETENCY
•The learners will explain that knowing oneself
can make a person accept his/her strengths
and limitations and deal with others better;
and
• The learners will share his/her unique
characteristics, habits, and experiences.
Personal Development
I N T R O DU CTI O
N
WEEK 1
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
•developing through the many changes
that take place in the life of human beings
as a result of many factors
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
• attempts to understand how
humans grow in different
aspects: physical, mental,
emotional, socialbehavioral, spiritual, etc.
PHYSICAL
development
COGNITIVE
development
psycho
social
development
PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT
• Covers the growth of the
brain, motor and sensory
skills, and even physical
health
Aspect or domains of Human Developmen
COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT
•covers our capacity to
learn, speak,
understand, reason, and
create
PSYCHO SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
• includes our social
interactions with other
people, our emotions,
attitudes, self-identity,
personality, beliefs, and values
PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT
vs
personal development
PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT
• process in which a person
learns a set of emotional
qualities and ways of
behaving
• Image enhancement
PERSONALITY
•It refers to the unique and relatively
enduring set of behaviors, feelings,
thoughts, and motives that characterize
an individual. (Feist and Rosenberg,
2012)
PERSONALITY
•Gordon Allport defines
personality as “a pattern of
habits, attitudes, and traits that
determine an individual’s
characteristics, behaviors, and
traits”
1.Nature (heredity or
genetic make-up)
2.Nurture
(environment)
A S S E S S M E N T
Nature vs. Nurture
•Instructions: Identify whether the traits inside
the box are hereditary (nature) or developed
through environment (nurture). Write the
answers below the pictures.
•Hobbies
•Religious Beliefs
•Skin color
•Community
engagement
•Accent or language
you speak
•Intelligence
•Down syndrome
•Language Acquisition
•Political Opinions
•Artistic or musical
ability
•Cancer
•Body Size
•Alcoholism
•Talent
•Interest
Five Universal Dimensions of Personality
OCEAN
Openness to experience
Conscientiousness
Extraversion
Agreeableness
Neuroticism
1. OPENNESS
•This trait features characteristics such as
imagination and insight; those high in this
trait also tend to have a broad range of
interests.
•adventurous and
•creative.
2. Conscientiousness
•Standard features of this dimension
include high levels of thoughtfulness,
good impulse control, and goal-directed
behaviors.
•organized and
•mindful of details.
3. Extraversion
•is characterized by excitability, sociability,
talkativeness, assertiveness, and high amounts of
emotional expressiveness.
•
•
outgoing
People who are low in extroversion (or introverted)
tend to be more reserved and have to expend energy in
social settings.
4. Agreeableness
•This personality dimension includes attributes
such as trust, altruism, kindness, affection, and
other prosocial behaviors.
•
more cooperative
•
more competitive and even manipulative.
5. Neuroticism:
•is a trait characterized by sadness, moodiness, and
emotional instability.
•
mood swings, anxiety, moodiness,
irritability, and sadness.
•
more stable and emotionally resilient.
How to
measure
personality?
 Observing
people’s behavior
• quite limited
• Other people
may not be able
to observe all
aspects of
personality
Personality Tests
1. Rorschach Inkblot Test
2. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
3. Keirsey Temperament Sorter
1. Roschach Inkblot Test
• The Rorschach Test is a projective psychological test
developed in 1921 by Hermann Rorschach to measure
thought disorders for the purpose of identifying mental
illness.
•It was inspired by the observation that
schizophrenia patients often interpret the
things they see in unusual ways.
2. The MBTI test (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
Assessment)
The 16 personality test is generally based on the
personality indicator Katharine Cook Briggs and her
daughter Isabel Briggs Myers developed.
1940s ---- and was built upon psychological research
performed by Carl Jung in the 1920s.
The type test is based on a series of questions that
gather information on how a person usually responds
or relates to various situations.
3. Keirsey Temperament Sorter
The Keirsey Temperament Sorter (KTS),
developed by David Kiersey, is a selfassessed personality questionnaire designed to
help people better understand themselves and
others.
It was first introduced in the book Please
Understand Me.
Artisans are the temperament with a natural
ability to excel in any of the arts, not only the
fine arts such as painting and sculpting, or the
performing arts such as music, theater, and
dance, but also the athletic, military, political,
mechanical, and industrial arts, as well as the
"art of the deal" in business.
Guardians are the cornerstone of
society, for they are the temperament given
to serving and preserving our most
important social institutions. Guardians
have natural talent in managing goods and
services--from supervision to maintenance
and supply -- and they use all their skills to
keep things running smoothly in their
families, communities, schools, churches,
hospitals, and businesses.
 Idealists, as a temperament, are passionately
concerned with personal growth and
development. Idealists strive to discover who
they are and how they can become their best
possible self
 They are gifted at helping others find their way
in life, often inspiring them to grow as
individuals and to fulfill their potential.
Rationals are the problem-solving
temperament, particularly if the problem has to do
with the many complex systems that make up the
world around us.
Rationals will analyze them to understand how they
work, so they can figure out how to make them
work better.
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
• process in which a person
reflects upon themselves,
understand who they are,
accept what they discover
about themselves, and learn (or
unlearn) new sets of values,
attitudes, behavior, and
thinking skills to reach their
fullest potential as a human
being
Personal Development or Self Development
•is a process of discovering oneself by
realizing one’s potential and
capabilities that are shaped over time
by studying in a formal school or
through environmental factors.
TITLE: KNOWING
ONESELF
THE BACKGROUND OF “KNOWING
THYSELF”
• The most important thing to
pursue is self-knowledge
• admitting one’s ignorance is the
beginning of knowledge.
Defining “Self”
In philosophical terms, it is the being,
which is the source of a person’s
consciousness.
It is the agent responsible for an
individual’s thoughts and actions.
Defining “Self”
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In, psychology, sociology, or
religion, it is the essence of a person:
his thoughts, feelings and actions,
experiences, beliefs, values,
principles, and relationships.
BENEFITS OF SELF KNOWLEDGE
BENEFITS OF SELF KNOWLEDGE
BENEFITS OF SELF KNOWLEDGE
BENEFITS OF SELF KNOWLEDGE
BENEFITS OF SELF KNOWLEDGE
BENEFITS OF SELF KNOWLEDGE
BENEFITS OF SELF KNOWLEDGE
Life… is beautiful when you feel its
beauty, but complicated when you see
only its problems