BS(PM) PJJ – FACE TO FACE 1
15 FEBRUARY 2015
INSTRUCTOR:
SITI NOR BINTI YAACOB, PhD.
sitinor@upm.edu.my/012-2841844
COURSE ASSESSMENT
NO.
TYPE OF ASSESSMENT
%
Due
1.
Test 1 (structure & essay)
20
2.
Review paper 1 (Theory)
15
1 WEEK AFTER
FACE TO FACE 2
3.
Review paper 2 (Personality and
Human dynamics)
25
3 WEEKS
BEFORE FINAL
EXAM
4.
Final exam
40
5.
TOTAL
100
1.1 Definition and Concept
1.2 Scope in Psychology of Personality
1.3 Theories of Personality
1.4 Study on Personality
1.5 Personality Assessment
What is personality?
 Originates from Latin word persona, means “mask”
 A dynamic and organized set of characteristics possessed by a
person that uniquely influences his or her cognitions,
motivations, and behavior in various situations
 The integrations of systems or habits that represent an
individual characteristic adjustments to the environment, which
includes the way(pattern) a person remembers(behavior),
thinks(thoughts) and feels(feelings).
 A person’s unique and relatively stable patterns of thoughts,
feelings, and actions, which results from interaction between the
human biological make-up and the environment that they live
in.
What is personality?
• PSYCHOLOGIST DEFINE….
– A distinctive and relatively stable pattern of behavior,
thoughts, motives, and emotions that characterizes an
individual. (Wade, C. & Tavris, C. (2011) Psychology. 10th Ed.
Prentice Hall.)
– The reasonable stable patterns of emotions, motives, and
behavior that distinguish one person from another. (Rathus,
S. A. (2012) Psychology: Concepts and Connections. 10th Ed.
Wadsworth Cengage Learning.)
– The unique collection of attitudes, emotions, thoughts,
habits, impulses, and behaviors that define how a person
typically behaves across situations. (Pastorino, E & DoylePortillo, S. (2012) What is Psychology? 3rd Ed. Wadsworth
Cengage Learning).
What is personality?
• PSYCHOLOGIST DEFINE….
– Some think of personality as consisting of the person’s most
striking traits, as in “This person has an outgoing personality”
or “That person has an agreeable personality.”
– Others focus on how personality is shaped by learning.
– Humanistic theorists, personality is not something people
have but rather something they create to give their lives
meaning and direction.
– Sociocultural theorists - always consider the influences of
culture, race, and ethnicity on personality.
– Islamic theologian – tolerance; no person can have a complete
view of the truth; therefore need to be flexible in thinking
and open to new ideas.
What is human dynamic?
 The concept of “human functioning”
 Main focus on active social interactions and
communications between people that might leave an
impact on people’s behavior and personality development,
which includes the interaction and dynamic interplay
between elements in a person’s cognitive, emotions, and
physical domain.
 Cognitive: mental process (thinking values, structure,
focus, objectivity, perspective)
 Emotions: more subjective and concern to relationships
(feelings, communication, organization, synthesis)
 Physical: action process (doing and operational things)
What is human dynamic?
 Each personality dynamic constitutes a whole way of
functioning, and they differ distinctly (unique) from others
in the way they process information, learn, communicate,
solve problems, etc.
 Human dynamic process are able to determine the
personality dynamics.
 Knowing a person’s personality dynamics = understanding
about his or her personality.
Human Dynamics
• Human
Dynamics comprises the actions and
interactions of personal, interpersonal, and
social/contextual factors and their effects on
behavioral outcomes.
• Human Dynamics are influenced by factors such as
economics, religion, politics, and culture.
• A pivotal work describing human functioning that will
impact management, education, and families.
• Human Dynamics is a systemic approach to the
complexities and wonders of how we process
information, learn, communicate, maintain wellbeing, respond to stress, and develop as unique
human beings, individually and collectively.
• To know someone's personality dynamic, therefore is to know
a great deal about that person. Each person constitutes a
whole system, which might be illustrated this way:
Personality Disorders
 Cluster A (odd/ eccentric disorders)
 Paranoid personality disorder
 Schizoid personality disorder
 Schizotypal personality disorder
 Cluster B (dramatic, emotional, or erratic disorders)
 Antisocial personality disorder
 Borderline personality disorder
 Histrionic personality disorder
 Narcissistic personality disorder
 Cluster C (anxious or fearful disorders)
 Avoidant personality disorder
 Dependent personality disorder
 Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
What is Personality Psychology?
 A field that studies personality based on theories of
individual differences.
 Concern is to build a consistent image of an individual
and their major psychological processes (Bradberry,
2007)
 Focuses on the study of how and why of the
similarities and differences human personality get
developed.
Fundamental Issues
 Individual Differences
 Every person are unique and different from each other.
Why and how are they unique are among the concern
and interest in the study of personality.
 Intra-personal functioning
 A set of processes taking place within the person.
According to Allport (1969), intra-personal functioning
also refers to the dynamic organization in a person. It is
a set of Personality functioning, i.e. a mechanism or
process inside us that lead us to certain action.
Other Issues
 Free will versus Determinism
 Can control own behavior or get controlled?
 Heredity versus Environment
 Genetic or environmental influence? Or both?
 Uniqueness versus Universality
 Human are unique individuals or similar in nature?
 Proactive versus Reactive
 Act on own initiative or react only when there is stimuli?
 Optimistic versus Pessimistic
 Able to alter pers. or remain the same for whole life?
Basic Concepts
 Characteristics of personality: patterns of thoughts,
feelings, and behaviors that make a person unique.
1. Consistency
 People may act similarly in various situations
2. Psychological and physiological
 Psychological construct but influenced by biological needs2
3. Impact behaviors and actions
 Affect the way we act
4. Multiple expressions
 Behaviors, also thought, feelings, and social relationships
5. Internal Causality
 External influences, but also thinking and feelings
Theories in Personality Study
 What is theory?
 A set of logically related concepts or statements, which
seeks to describe and explain development and predict what
kinds of behavior may occur under certain conditions.
 Functions of a personality theory:
 To organize and clarify observations
 To provide a sense of understanding of the subject matter
understudied
 To guide further research
 Purpose of a personality theory:
• Explain the meaning of an event / phenomena it addresses
• Predict or suggest new information
Study on Personality
 Uses of Personality Research:
 Study the development and external factors and the role
of personality play on individuals thought, attitude and
behavior
 Study people with specific psychological disorders,
symptoms or characteristics.
 Develop personality test, i.e. able to evaluate and
measure specific psychological phenomenon
 Develop treatment approaches to improve personality
(especially for those suffering from personality disorder)
Study on Personality
 4 Fundamental Concern in Studying Personality:
 A theory of Personality
 An approach to the assessment (or measurement) of
personality
 Research Procedures for testing hypothesis (or
implications derived from theory)
 Application derived from the theory including methods
of personality change (i.e. psychotherapy)
Personality Assessment
 Assessing and measuring a persons’ personality
 Qualitative methods:
 Involves interview or careful observation of people
 Followed by careful description and analysis
 Quantitative methods:
 Involves measurement or attempts to measure or record
behaviors, thoughts, or feelings
 Use personality tests or standard instruments
 Examples of techniques: self-report inventories, projective
techniques, clinical interview and behavioural assessment
 Depend on research objective and theoretical perspective