Identity and Personality Formation

Personality

This is something you were born with.

Personality

It's a matter of nature (genetics) and nurture (development), where it defines how you think (cognition), how you feel (emotions) and how you act (behavior).

Identity

This is not who we are and how we are, it's who we believe we are.

Social Identities

These are created through our beliefs and attitudes, so they are constructed later in our developmental stages, and they are multidimensional.

Identity

It's how a person identifies himself/herself in a human world and in different social out-groups/in-groups. It's the labels you assign to yourself and as any labels, the social identities are not static at all. You can change them in the blink of an eye.

Personality, identity

______ is the body you have, and _____ is the clothes you wear.

Biological Inheritance

Refers to the transmission from parents to offspring through the mechanisms of genes found in the chromosomes of the sex cells comprising the biological structures, psychological process, reflexes, urges, capacity, intelligence, and traits such as pigmentation and stature.

Cultural Environment

It refers to the learned ways of living, the norms of behavior- folkways, mores, laws, values, ideas, and partnered ways of Group.

Cultural Norms, Culture, culture, subculture

______ are present once a child will learn as a member of society and of a specific social group. _____ serves as a guide for the individual by providing one with models. Personality is shaped according to and depending on one's _____ and _____.

Social Environment

Refers to the various groups and social interactions going on in the groups of which one is a member according to Panopio (1994). The Structure and size of the group and the kind of social relations and interactions influence the child's personality formation.

size, status

Also the ____, status of the social group and the position or ____ one has in a group affect the social experience that one gets.