1. Understanding Yourself
Assignment #3 Influences of Behavior PPT
Understanding Yourself
Influences on Behavior

2. Factors Affecting Your Decisions
Needs
Wants
Personal Priorities
Goals
Standards

3. Basic items that are required for living.
Needs:
Basic items that are required for living.

4. Needs All people have the same basic needs.
Must be met for proper growth and development.
Regardless of how these needs are met, they must be at least partially satisfied before going on to other needs.

5. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
Self-Actualization
The highest level in Maslow’s ranking of human needs.
All other needs must be at least partially satisfied.
If reached, have the need to develop to their full potential!
Set goals for themselves, and reached many of them.
Esteem Needs
People seek respect and admiration.
Like yourself and have pride in yourself.
You will have a sense of importance and confidence.
Love and Acceptance Needs
Feel loved by other people
Feel their presence is important to other people
Everyone needs to be accepted, supported, praised, and loved by others.
Safety and Security Needs
People need to feel free from danger, risk, or injury in their surroundings.
Knowing what to expect in the future helps people fulfill their needs for security.
Physical Needs
Food, water, clothing, shelter.
Necessary for good health, comfort, and to sustain life.

6. FACT
People’s behaviors differ according to the level of need they are trying to fulfill.
Everyone has the same basic needs. However, people have different wants.

7. Wants:
Things people desire, but don’t need.

8. Wants Not necessary for survival.
May bring satisfaction, but life will go on without them.
Sometimes people want something they don’t really need.

9. Needs & Wants
Example: You need food in the morning before you begin your classes. You may eat at home or you may want to eat in the cafeteria at school.
Either way your need has been satisfied, but you chose the way you wanted to satisfy it.

10. Needs & Wants
People satisfy their needs in different ways…if this were not so, everyone would eat the same kind of food and live in the same kind of houses.
Factors that make people’s decisions different
Personal priorities, goals, standards.

11. Personal Priorities:
The beliefs, feelings, and experiences you consider to be important and desirable.
Examples: honest, friendship, freedom, happiness, popularity, health, education, beauty, or status may be personal priorities you consider important.

12. Personal Priorities They guide the decisions you make everyday.
Affected by your experiences you have had throughout life.
They change as you change!

13. Factors Affecting Your Personal Priorities
Your relationship with other people (your friends)
Your experiences (education, knowledge)
Needs
Beliefs and morals
Personal Priority Judgment: the level of importance to a certain item or action.

14. The aims people consciously try to reach.
Goals:
The aims people consciously try to reach.
When you reach your goals, you attain something you wanted and considered important.

15. Types of Goals Short-term: from a week to a year.
Long-term: a year or more.
Visionary: goal for the future that you hope to achieve
May inspire you to do more than you thought you were capable of doing.

16. Steps for Achieving Goals
Make a list of what you want out of life.
Consider your personal priorities.
List ways you could achieve your goals.
Make plans, group short-term goals together to achieve long-term goals.
Establish deadlines and rewards

17. Accepted levels of achievement.
Standards:
Accepted levels of achievement.

18. Standards Many different kinds of standards… Your appearance
How well you are at certain skills
The quality of your possessions

19. Influences on Your Behavior and Decisions
Family’s culture and traditions
Peers
Expectations of society
Ways other people find appropriate
Your Future!
The decisions you make today will affect you as an adult!

20. Assignment
You are to go through the magazines to find at least 5 pictures of wants and 5 pictures of needs. Once you’ve found these cut them out and paste them onto a sheet of construction paper. Label them accordingly.