Theories And Theories Of Personality

Social psychology and personality psychology both came into fruition around the same time – the 1920’s and 1930’s. Needless

In psychology, there are four major theories of personality: psychodynamic, trait or five-factor model, humanistic, and social-cognitive. The psychodynamic theory primarily focuses on the role of the unconscious mind. The social cognitive theory focuses on the effect of the environment on behavior and is based on theories of learning. Whereas, the humanistic theory emphasizes conscious life experiences and choices. The trait or five-factor model focuses on characteristics themselves and not the roots of personality.

Avoidant attachment of a male present in a romantic relationship (Male super ego and madonna-whore complex)

Freud developed a theory to describe the structure of personality called a psychoanalytic theory. This theory suggested that personality consists of the interaction of three component parts of personality and the mind: the id, ego, and superego. These three components are separate, but work together to make up the self. Each of these are important when it comes to development, and they are all a part of everyone. However, even though these components are at work in everyone, one may be more prominent in one person than another. It is important to understand what each of these components mean.

Over the variation of the project, subject A has been tested over three different models of personality. Each one provided different points to her personality and allowed for the most in-depth explanation of the subject’s personality. Each of these models are also capable of acting as a check and balance for the other. For example, between the trait and psychodynamic models. One could compare the results from the Big 5 and how that matches to the Myers-Briggs since essentially those gave similar feedback. Once those are both taken accounted for, these could give rise to a more accurate basis for the biological model, which is mainly inferred and not factual in the first place.

Allport defines personality as ‘the dynamic organisation within the individual of those psychological systems that determine his unique adjustment to his environment’ (Allport, 1937). An individual’s unique personality traits and attributes are a powerful indicator of how he/she will interact with the work environment. The difference between average and outstanding employees can often be solely personality related. As the employee is the most valuable asset to the company, ‘selecting the right employee during the process is critical’ (Carbery and Cross, 2013, pp. 41-53)

When I was a little girl, my parents were foster parents because they wanted to adopt another child. Throughout my childhood, there were many children who would come stay with us for a few days, sometimes a few weeks or sometimes a few months. When I was 9 years old, my older sister, Miranda, and I came home from school and noticed a little tricycle in our front yard. We ran inside to meet this cute 17 months-old little boy named Jordan. Jordan’s biological mother was a substance abuser and she continued to abuse while she was pregnant with him. We suspect that this resulted in some of the learning and behavioral problems that he deals with daily. Jordan is now 15 years old. As he has gotten older, we have noticed how his personality differs from the rest of our family’s. I will be defining his personality by applying Eysenck’s Biological Theory, Temperament, and Bandura’s Social Cognitive Theory.

Bandura’s three factors of reciprocal determinism and how they work together are the environment factor, which is the person’s surroundings, including people who may be around and the potential for reinforcement in that environment, let’s say a party setting. The personal/cognitive factor, which is the characteristics that have been rewarded in the past such as being the “life of the party”. And the actual behavior itself, which is the part where he actually takes action and starts socializing (in the “life of the party” example) and/or crushing people at beer pong (Ciccarelli,

Leigh Anne Touhy is the fictional representation of the real life Leigh Anne, famed adoptive mother of Michael Oher from the 2009 film The Blind Side. Leigh Anne is a white interior designer, living in the south with her husband and two children. The family is considered to be part of the upper class, and made their money from owning a string of fast food chains. Leigh Anne and her family take in a black homeless boy, Michael, and throughout the film experience a growing love and bond. They eventually adopt Michael and the Leigh Anne becomes a fiercely protective mother. Very little is revealed about her upbringing

This paper is a comparison of three different viewpoints on the subject of personality. Carl Jung, B.F. Skinner, and Carl Rogers all had very different outlooks on what defined someone’s personality. As an added feature I have included myself as a theorist because my views are also different from the previous mentioned theorists. This paper will also look briefly into the background of each theorist because their views on life began in their childhood. Amazingly you will notice the all had similar backgrounds, but came up with completely different ways of looking at life.

Everyone has a personality, of course, but until fairly recently, there were no personality theories available to help understand what factors contribute to its development. In recent years, though, personality theories such as McCrae and Costa's Big Five and Schwartz's theory of basic values have been advanced for these purposes. To gain some deeper insights into these issues, this paper presents a review of the relevant peer-reviewed and scholarly literature to provide a definition of personality and an examination of theoretical approaches to studying personality. Finally, an analysis of those factors that may influence an individual's personality development is followed by a summary of the research and important findings concerning personality theory in the conclusion.

The term personality has been defined several times in different ways throughout the history of psychology. A definition that captures much of what is meant by personality was described as “more or less stable, internal factors that make one person’s behaviour consistent from one time to another, and different from the behaviour other people would manifest in comparable situations” by Child (1968) (Eysenck, 1994). This definition is very broad and it includes personality traits as well as intelligence that are considered as aspects of personality. There is a difference between moods or emotions and personality. According to many psychologists personality is stable and does not change dramatically over the time, whereas moods and emotions may change over shortish periods, because those can be collated with external behaviour, on the other hand if personality determined behaviour then everyone would behave in identical pattern to different situations. That’s why there are individual differences. It is assumed that there are such individual differences that are revealed by different ways of behaving in different situations. That means that for example introverted people would be shyer in a social group or in the comparison extraverted people will talk more. This leads us to personality traits. There are many theories of personality traits such as: they are habitual patterns of behaviour, thought and emotion (Kassin, 2004), which means that there are different patterns in

Albert Ellis was a known as a 20th century psychologist who developed Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy. “Ellis was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the 1913” (“Albert Ellis (1913-2007),” 2015). He was also known to have a distant relationship with parents. Ellis attended the City College of Downtown New York obtaining a bachelor’s degree in business (Cherry, 2015a). Ellis earned both his M.A. degree and his Ph.D. in clinical psychology at Columbia University. He was the oldest of three therefore found himself in a position of taking care of his younger siblings

Every individual has a personality unique to themselves that play significant roles within their lives. In the textbook, personality is defined as “an individual’s characteristic patterns of thought, emotion, and behavior, together with the psychological mechanisms behind those patterns” (Funder, 2016, p. 5). Considering this definition, personality is influenced by many factors: your genes, self-image, environment, situations one experiences throughout their life, etc. If one can understand and know their personality, it can help them understand why they behave or think a certain way and even help change their behavior. As a result, may different theories have been created and studied. In particular, I will be explaining Mary Ainsworth strange situations, Carl Jung’s idea of persona, and the Big Five personality theory.

The study of personality traits is beneficial in identifying the many variables that exist from human to human; the combinations of these variables provide us with a true level of individuality and uniqueness. In the field of psychology, trait theory is considered to be a key approach to the study of human personality (Crowne, 2007; Burton, Westen & Kowalski, 2009). This paper aims to identify a number of significant contributors who have played crucial roles in both the development and application of trait theory. This paper then moves focus to these theorists, outlining their theory and analysing both the strengths and weaknesses of those theories. An illustration of the methods used in trait measurement is given and includes the