The character of a person is formed from childhood and changes with age. The psychological characteristics of the individual depend on his ways of thinking, feeling and motivating, therefore closely related to social conditions and specific circumstances.
Personality traits that recur in typicalsituations are character traits. People differ in courage or cowardice at times of danger, closeness or sociability in relationships and the like. Scientists have developed many classifications that describe the psychological characteristics of the individual. The national school shares two directions of systematization of the properties of character.
1. Mental processes form personality traits.
The will sphere is responsible for the level of perseverance, decisiveness, independence, organization, discipline, self-control.
Emotional internal processes make a person impressionable, responsive, inert, indifferent, quick-tempered and sharp.
The level of intellectual development determines ingenuity, curiosity, resourcefulness, and thoughtfulness.
2. The focus of personality forms the character traits
In the system of character orientation, a category of properties is divided in relation to itself, to people, to the world around it, and to activity.
For example, a person belongs to the world around him, according to his own convictions or absolute lack of principle. At the heart of the belief system is its own experience and education.
Psychological features of character in relation to the activity driven by vital goals.Character traits are manifested in priority interests. The instability of aptitudes is seen against the background of a broken integrity of the personality and lack of independence. On the contrary, people with constant attachments and interests are simultaneously characterized as purposeful and persevering.
Psychological features of character differtwo people with the same interests. After all, they may have different attitudes towards themselves or others. Therefore, one is cheerful, and the second is sad, one is humble, and the second is obsessive, selfish or altruistic. Two individuals with the same orientation differently understand the ways of achieving the goal, choose different behaviors because they have different motivations. The need for success determines the psychological characteristics in actions aimed either at the desire to simply avoid failure, or to actively fight for victory. Therefore, someone takes the initiative, and someone deviates from the slightest responsibility.
In relation to people there is a lie or honesty, sociability, politeness, responsiveness.
Attitude towards oneself is based on a healthy level of egoism, and at the same time there can be observed low or high self-esteem.
Psychological features of perception
In humans, the visual, auditory, tactile, kinetic, olfactory, and taste receptors are developed to varying degrees by which the process of perception is carried out.
The perception of space is to determinethe distance of the object from the observer, from objects, its parameters and shape. Visual analyzers, hearing, skin and motor receptors work. The perception of three-dimensional space provides a person with a special organ, which is called the vestibular apparatus, it is located in the inner ear.
To perceive time a person has touse analyzers of internal organic sensations, except for auditory, visual and motor sensations. Some individuals wake up at the right time without an alarm. About such people they say that they have developed a sense of time in the process of life.
Not all types of perception have been studied completely, scientists are actively exploring this area of the human psyche.