Personality Factors

1. The Affective Domain

a) Self-esteem

b) Inhibitions

c) Risk-taking

d) Anxiety

e) Empathy

f) Extroversion

receiving, respondingvaluing, organizing,

value system

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 Bloom’s 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.

1. Self-esteem• Global• Situational or specific• Task

2. Inhibition• Inhibition and Language Ego

3. Risk Taking

4. Anxiety• Trait anxiety• State anxiety• Debilitative anxiety• Facilitative anxiety

5. Empathy

6. Extroversion• Extroversion / Introversion

Myers-Briggs Types

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

Major Assets and liabilities of Myers-Briggs types

Motivation• Behavioristic • Cognitive (need for exploration,

manipulation, activity, simulation, knowledge, enhancement)

• Constructivist

Motivation• Extrinsic/Intrinsic• Instrumental / Integrative orientations

The Neurobiology of Affect• Amygdala

Problems with measuring factors:• Validity (self-perceptions)• “Self-flattery”• Culturally-ethnocentric