Personality Factors

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Personality Factors
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a) Self-esteem b) Inhibitions c)
Risk-taking d) Anxiety e) Empathy f)
Extroversion
1. The Affective Domain
receiving, responding valuing, organizing, value
system
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The Affective Domain

• The affective domain (emotions or feelings) may
  be juxtaposed to the cognitive side.
• The development of affective states or feelings
  involves a variety of personality factors,
  feelings both about ourselves and about others
  with who m we come into contact.
• Benjamin Blooms definition of the affective
  domain
• Receiving persons must be aware of the
  environment sorrounding, and be willing to
  receive and to give controlled or selected
  attention to a stimulus.
• Responding the person is willing to respond
  voluntarily without coercion, and then to receive
  satisfaction from that response.
• Valuing placing worth on a thing, a behavior, or
  a person.
• Orgavinzation system of beliefs, determining
  interrelationalships among them, and establishing
  a hierarchy.
• Value system individuals become characterized by
  and understand themselves.

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1. Self-esteem

• Global
• Situational or specific
• Task

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2. Inhibition

• Inhibition and Language Ego

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3. Risk Taking
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4. Anxiety

• Trait anxiety
• State anxiety
• Debilitative anxiety
• Facilitative anxiety

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5. Empathy
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6. Extroversion

• Extroversion / Introversion

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• Myers-Briggs Types

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Types

• Extroversion-Introversion (E/I)
• Sensing-Intuition (S/N)
• Thinking-feeling (T/F)
• Judging-perceiving (J/P)

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Major Assets and liabilities of Myers-Briggs types
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Motivation

• Behavioristic
• Cognitive (need for exploration, manipulation,
  activity, simulation, knowledge, enhancement)
• Constructivist

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Motivation

• Extrinsic/Intrinsic
• Instrumental / Integrative orientations

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The Neurobiology of Affect

• Amygdala

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Problems with measuring factors

• Validity (self-perceptions)
• Self-flattery
• Culturally-ethnocentric