Perdev Reviewer
Perdev Reviewer
Perdev Reviewer
STEM 11-14
CHAPTER 1:
Influences of Human Development
Heredity – (Genes)
Environment
Maturation
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
Process in which persons reflect upon themselves, understand who they are,
accept what they discover about themselves, and learn (or unlearn) new sets
of values, attitudes, behavior, and thinking skills to reach their fullest
potential as human beings.
ORIGIN
Figures on cave
Philosophers think about self & human beings
Attempts to think individual development with social responsibility
Become the “superior man” (Great Chinese)
Religion
- School of thoughts
Humanistic Approach
Carl Rogers – client-centered approach
Abraham Maslow – five stages of human development (Hierarchy of Needs)
Positive Psychology
Martin Seligman- human nature has it’s good and positive strengths, as well as
its inadequacies and weaknesses
1. Stages of Adolescence
Early adolescence – (10-13 y/o)
Middle adolescence – (14-16 y/o)
Late adolescence – (17-20 y/o)
2. Puberty
- Biological changes
Cognitive – (thinking & reasoning)
Affective – (feelings & emotions)
Knowing oneself
DEFINING SELF
Socrates
- Most important thing to pursue was self-knowledge & admitting one’s ignorance is the
beginning of true knowledge.
Plato
- Beginning of knowledge is self-knowledge.
o Philosophical
- It is being, which is the source of a person’s consciousness
o Psychological
- Essence of a person: his thoughts, feelings & action, experiences, beliefs, values,
principle & relationships.
o Personality
- Set of behaviors, feelings & thoughts, motives that identifies an individual.
Physical
Psychological
Cognitive
Affective
Spiritual (values)
Gordon Allport
- Personality: pattern of habits, attitudes & traits that determine in individual’s
characteristics, behavior & traits.
PERSONALITY
Influenced by:
- Nature (heredity)
- Nurture (environment)
5 Dimensions of Personality
Personality Trait
- Disposition to behave consistently in a particular way
Measuring Personality
- Observation
- Tests (Rorschach Inkblot
Test, Myers-Briggs Type
Indicator (MBTI), Kiersey
Temperamental Sorter)
HOLISTIC DEVELOPMENT
Dualism
- Mind & body (Rene Descartes)
- Duality/understanding the nature of things in a single, dual mode (extremes)
Eg. Good-bad
Life-death
Feelings
- Result of the emotions that we experience
- Mental associations and reactions to an emotion that are personal and acquired
through experience
EMOTIONS FEELINGS
more deeply
Attitudes
- a person’s thoughts, feelings, and emotions about another person, object, idea,
behavior or situation; result of a person’s evaluation of an experience with
another person, object, idea, behavior or situation based on his or her values and
belief system
Behavior
- outward manifestation or acting out of the attitudes as individual has.
The difference between attitude and behavior can be drawn clearly on the following grounds:
1. Attitude is defined as a person’s mental tendency, which is responsible for the way he thinks or
feels for someone or something. Behavior implies the actions, moves, conduct or functions or an
individual or group towards other persons.
2. A person’s attitude is mainly based on the experiences gained by him during the course of his life
and observations. On the other hand, the behavior of a person relies on the situation.
3. Attitude is a person’s inner thoughts and feelings. As opposed to, behavior expresses a person’s
attitude.
4. The way of thinking or feeling is reflected by a person’s attitude. On the contrary, a person’s
conduct is reflected by his behavior.
5. Attitude is defined by the way we perceive things whereas behavior is ruled by social norms.
Attitude is a human trait but behavior is an inborn attribute
Values
- system of beliefs that adhere to the highest ideals of human existence. This ideals create
meaning and purpose in a person’s life that often result in personal happiness and self
fulfillment.
Virtues
- descriptions or adjectives that reflect a value.
VALUES VIRTUES
- Describes what is morally
-Really define what you (or the society)
good
find to be important
- Always about morality (moral
-Aren’t necessarily moral
-Internal (within you) excellence)
- External (public persona)