1. Personality Development

2.  Personality is the sum total of behaviors, attitudes, beliefs, and values that are characteristic of an individual. It determines how we adjust to our environment and react to specific situations.  Heredity: the transmission of genetic characteristics from parents to children  Instinct: an unchanging, biologically inherited behavior pattern  Sociobiology:

3.  Nature: scientists have found over 10,000 human instincts including motherhood, warfare, laughing, and the push to form a society and build a civilization.  Nurture: a person’s behavior is the result of social environment and learning. The idea that all infants have infinite potential to taught or trained to be anything.  Pavlov’s dogs**

4.  Heredity:  Characteristics that are present from birth ◦ Body build ◦ Hair type ◦ Eye color ◦ Skin pigmentation  Aptitude: capacity to learn a particular skill or acquire a specific body of knowledge  Heredity sets limits on individuals ◦ Ex. A 5’ foot tall person will most likely not play in the NBA

5.  Birth Order  Personality is influenced by whether or not we have siblings and chronologically where we fall among them.  Certain roles have specific characteristics (generally) ◦ Oldest ◦ Middle ◦ Youngest ◦ Only Children

6.  Parental Characteristics ◦ Age of parents at time of birth ◦ Level of education ◦ Religious orientation ◦ Economic status ◦ Cultural heritage ◦ Occupational background ◦ **Parents personality

7.  Cultural Environment ◦ Region of nation ◦ Ethnicity ◦ Religion ◦ Gender ◦ Age ◦ **All affected by culture of the nation

8.  Anna and Isabelle  Genie  Institutionalization: children negatively impacted by lack of socialization and human interaction, even while physical needs (food, medicine) were provided ◦ Ex. Orphanage, hospitals, etc.

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