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Explore personality traits, behaviors, and factors shaping personality development. Identify traits like extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability, and openness to experiences. Reflect on your own traits and decorate a paper to describe yourself.
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Personality Miss Shannon October 7, 2013
Activator • Share with your partner: • What your act of kindness was, who it was to, how it made you feel • What was your physical activity, how long did you participate in it for?
Set Induction • How do we explain differences in personality? • Ancient Greeks once though it had to do with bodily fluids • Excess yellow bile = angry and irritable • Excess blood = cheerful and optimistic • Proper balance = balanced person
Objectives • Name five traits that are used to define personality • Identify two factors that determine how your personality develops • Reflect on two personality traits and relate them to yourself. • Analyze what has made you who you are today.
Describing Personality • Behaviors, attitudes, feelings, and ways of thinking that make you an individual. • Five traits to describe personality: • Extroversion • Agreeableness • Conscientiousness • Emotional Stability • Openness to Experiences
Organizer • Fold your paper in thirds • Fold down the top inch • Label the first column: Trait • Draw a double ended arrow across the other two columns
Extroversion How much you like being with other people Extrovert Introvert Shy Quiet Reserved Enjoy spending time on their own. • Outgoing • Talkative • Sociable • Seek out other people
AgreeablenessYour tendency to relate to other people in a friendly way. Agreeable Disagreeable Suspicious Hostile Think others are unreliable Being taken advantage of • Cooperative • Forgiving • Good-natured • Thing others are honest and trustworthy
ConscientiousnessHow responsible and self-disciplined you are Conscientious Unconscientious Impulsive Careless Distracted • Dependable • Makes good decisions • Organized
Emotional StabilityHow you react emotionally to situations Stable Unstable Focus on negative things Fearful Worrisome Angry • Relaxed • Secure • Calm • Focus on the positive side of things.
Openness to ExperiencesHow willing you are to try new things Open Closed Predictable Less independent Focuses on schedules • Curious • Imaginative • Creative • Wide range of interests
How Personality Forms • Influenced by: • Heredity • Inherited, predisposed • Environment • Family • Modeling • Friends • Peer group • Culture
Activity • Retrieve a piece of paper from the front • Decorate it using magazine cutouts and drawing • Describe who you are • What you like to do • Interests • Beliefs • Values
Exit Slip • Describe two personality traits we discussed in class and where you fit in on the spectrum.