MODULE 4-5 Flashcards
What are the Latin words that the word “personality” came from.
PER AND SONARE
To sound through
PERSONARE
Personality development begins at birth and does not develop gradually.
FALSE
Every feature of personality is influenced by heredity and by the surrounding conditions.
TRUE
Entirely self-centered
INFANT
It is when the child usually becomes stubborn, even to reasonable suggestions of others. This resistance to adult authority is a sign of the child’s self-assertion; a way to make the world conform to his or her wishes.
SECOND OR THIRD YEAR
It is when the child has already moved towards further personality differentiation. He or she becomes imaginative.
AGE OF THREE
The child becomes talkative and curious about the surrounding world. The child asks many questions and seems to be amused by his or her developing powers of expressions.
FOUR TO FIVE YEARS
The period of fastest growth in all aspects, should have a certain degree of understanding about the rights of others, and their ability to compete for attention or dominance in the group; the child’s greatest personality is for love and security.
FIRST FIVE YEARS OF LIFE
The _______ child increases in social consciousness, he or she begins to understand the meaning of personal-social relations.
PRESCHOOL CHILD
_______ children face competitive experiences. Failures and rejection make an impact to them; children often live in a world of fantasy.
PRIMARY SCHOOL
Children that are are usually very active, full of vigor, and very energetic. Playing continues to be a major preoccupation. Because they want to break away from their parents’ hold, children sometimes rebel against parental standards.
SIX TO NINE YEARS OLD
This is the age of reason and a big transformation takes place in the psyche.
SEVENTH YEAR
A period or “relaxation”; the child takes time too rest form the exuberant period that preceded this age. It is also a period of preparation for the critical age of puberty.
BETWEEN EIGHT AND NINE YEARS
In this age, children become less calm and more difficult to handle. Their minds start develop. It is at this stage when they start making judgments and analyzing things.
AGE TEN
When children will start to hid behind small affectations and slyness. A twelve-year old could feel misunderstood and persecuted. It is difficult to tell what is going on inside their minds. Children begins to fade and adolescence starts to set in.
AGE OF ELEVEN AND TWELVE
8 Things that Children Need for Good Mental Health
LOVE
ACCEPTANCE
SECURITY
PROTECTION
INDEPENDENCE
FAITH
GUIDANCE
CONTROL
It is the period of transition from dependence on adult direction and protection, to self-dependence and self-determination. It is the most important period of learning techniques for health living.
ADOLESCENCE
Pubescent period for females.
12-15 YEARS
Pubescent period for male.
14-17 YEARS
What are the two factors in Personality Development.
HOME AND MENTAL HEALTH
INADEQUATE PARENT CHILD RELATIONSHIP
It causes children to fear that those who constitute their world are hostile.
EMOTIONAL REJECTION OF THE CHILD
Such behavior of parents tend to develop conceit, over-confidence, disobedience, and disrespect for authority in children
SUBMISSION TO THE CHILD
Because of this, some children fail to become self-reliant.
OVERPROTECTING THE CHILD
Mother’s love and physical affection are essential to the child’s mental health which provides the child with feelings of security.
MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONSHIP
To the son, the father represents the man he will someday grow up to be like; to the daughter, the father is a symbol of what men should be like and she will look for a man like her father who will one day co-parent with her.
FATHER-CHILD RELATIONSHIP
A person of either sex who substitutes for the real parent; the child tends to project his or her own parents, whether positively or negatively.
PARENT SURROGATE
Very significant for mental hygiene.
MOTIVATIONS OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR
Supported by objective psychologists
NEEDS THEORY OF BEHAVIOR
Supported by clinicians or subjective psychologists, contends that behavior is motivated by inner forces, known as mental personality.
PSYCHODYNAMIC APPROACH TO HUMAN BEHAVIOR
This theory suggests that, throughout life, desires, wishes and drives, collectively called needs, motivate all. When these are not fulfilled, the individual is placed under stress and , in order to relieve the tension created, one has to strive for appropriate satisfactions.
THE NEEDS THEORY OF HUMAN MOTIVATION
HIERARCHY OF MOTIVES
PHYSIOLOGICAL NEEDS
SAFETY NEEDS
SENSE OF BELONGING AND LOVE NEEDS
ESTEEM NEEDS
THE NEED FOR SELF-ACTUALIZATION
COGNITIVE NEEDS
ESTHETIC NEEDS
Hunger, thirst, air, etc.
PHYSIOLOGICAL NEEDS
The need for freedom from threat or danger
SAFETY NEEDS
The need for affiliation, belonging, and acceptance
SENSE OF BELONGING AND LOVE NEEDS
The need for achievement, strength, competence, reputation, and status or prestige
ESTEEM NEEDS
The need for self-fulfillment to realize potentialities, to become what one is capable of becoming
THE NEED FOR SELF-ACTUALIZATION
The need to know and understand, the need to understand the mysterious, the need to tackle the unknown.
COGNITIVE NEEDS
The need for symmetry, order, system, and structure.
ESTHETIC NEEDS
Means motivation to action. It defines human behavior in terms of the inner personality of the inner self.
PSYCHODYNAMICS
Believes that the life force, or libido or sex drive, strongly influences the unconscious mind of the child’s personality.
PSYCHOANALYSIS
When both the ego and the sex drive developments are greatly affected by the life experience encountered at this stage.
INFANTILE STAGE (BIRTH TO 5-6 YEARS)
6 YEARS TO PUBERTY
LATENT PERIOD
LASTS UNTIL THE END OF TEEN YEARS
ADOLESCENT PERIOD
Interests in pleasurably bodily sensations; localization of autoerotic pleasures.
AUTOEROTIC STAGE
Libidinal satisfactions derived mainly by way of the mouth.
ORAL-EROTIC STAGE
The eliminative functions and organs provide the principal erotic gratification
ANAL-EROTIC STAGE
When the possibilities for pleasure are derived from the sex organs.
GENITAL OR PHALLIC STAGE
Occur in the form of feelings, moods, interests, attitudes, and prejudices. They differ only in degree from the intense emotional experiences.
MILD EMOTIONAL STATES
As shown by mild annoyance, mild depression, and mild elation over minor accomplishments.
FEELINGS
Are feelings that persist for longer periods.
MOODS
Mild emotions, accompanied by some forms of tensions, which activate behavior; increases productivity.
INTERESTS
Are dispositions assumed by people which indicates feelings or opinions.
ATTITUDES
Lie dormant for some time and are directed towards actions, ideas, races, or religious groups.
PREJUDICES
Concerned with the proper control of feelings and the capacity to react to different situations in ways that are beneficial.
EMOTIONAL MATURITY
It is a feeling that is produced when desires are met with some forms of interference which prevent or delay their completion.
FRUSTRATION
Sources of Frustration
EXTERNAL SITUATION
INNER DYNAMICS OF THE PERSON
Refers to the individual’s ability to endure the delay in or thwarting of a conflict without resorting to maladaptive behavior or suffering personality disorganization.
FRUSTRATION TOLERANCE
The tension or excitement within, when one strives to reach a decision between equally attractive or repelling situations.
CONFLICTS
Involve the choice of alternatives that are equally desirable but have incompatible values.
CONFLICTING ATTRACTIONS
Involves a situation which is attractive but with undesirable factors that accompany it.
AVOIDANCE ATTRACTIONS
Involves a situation where the person is caught between tow negative values.
CONFLICTING AVOIDANCE
