Sunday 28 November 2010

Personality and Self Concept

Personality: "the quality of being a person; existence as a self-conscious human being; personal identity."
Self Concept:
"the idea or mental image one has of oneself and one's strengths, weaknesses, status, etc.; self-image."
 
Personality is the qualities that a person has, self concept is how a person portrays an image about itself.
These days individuals as persuaded to by products and services which are branded to increase their self image. Media plays a big role in persuading consumers to think these items are a necessity of life. 
 
 
 http://www.calldrmatt.com/mirror_image.jpg 
 
 http://alwaysaskwhy.com/james/blog/images/Arianna/Ari-smiling-at-self-in-mirror-2008.02.01.jpg
 
Solomon Etal defines self concept as the attitude a person holds to him or herself.  
http://www.mypersonality.info/basic-vs-pro/personality-type-test Personality test can be taken on this website. Ruth set a task to do a personality test. 

The big five of personality
 
Discovering personalities 
 
Above are two youtube links where on can carry out a personality on themselves.  
 
In the lecture, Ruth introduced a personality chart on brands. With regards to chocolates the chart was analysed. This was a useful lecture on personality and self concept.
 
 

 
 

1 comment:

  1. You need to go into much more depth in your blog. Please re-read the assignment brief to see wht is required in terms of content. Good to see you including images and useful websites but you need to go into much more depth on in-class activities.
    Most importantly you need to find the marketing applications and explain how the theory works iin real life

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