第三单元Knowing yourself.ppt

Unit 3 Knowing Yourself Text A: Personality Development Definition of Personality Personality is the particular combination of emotional, attitudinal, and behavioral response patterns of an individual. --Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Try to list as many words as possible related to personality. PERSONALITY active aggressive ambitious confident cooperative creative earnest responsible Movie Show Watch the movie, choose the person you like most and explain why you like her most. ID It follows the principle of pleasure Libido -the primary drive Oedipus Complex Listening Comprehension 1. What are the main ideas mentioned in the listening passage? 1. What personality mean; 2. How knowledge about personality can help us. 2. What do psychologists usually look for when they talk about personality? Psychologists look for things that make a person different from others or things that can explain how a person is different from others. 3. How do psychologists usually group people? Psychologists use tests to categorize and compare people.. 4. In general, how can knowledge about personality help us? a. Understand other better when we know how they behave and why they behave in a certain way; b. improve ourselves so that we can be better persons. What is personality? How does knowledge about personality help us? First of all, let us take a look at what personality means. In general, when psychologists talk about personality, they are usually looking for things that make a person different from others or things that can explain how a person is not the same as others. However, different psychologists have different ways of explaining what personality is. They often use tests to put people into categories and compare them. For example, people who are quiet and like to spend more time at home reading and doing their own thins are called introverts. “Introverts” is spelt I-N-T-R-O-V-E-R-T-S. others who enjoy going out and spending time with other peop