PSY 211: Characteristics And Qualities
Characteristics and Qualities
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Characteristics and Qualities Scientists define personality as a combination of characteristics and qualities that form within an individual. This means the way we interact and behave with ourselves or socially and how one emotionally reacts to certain concepts. There are four certain perspectives of personality that will be discussed and how three of these theories are compared. Also, if taking part in personality assessments can have a negative, positive or have both end results. A personality theory, or perspective, is an attempt to describe and illustrate how people are the same, different or what makes an individual particular and rare. These theories are Psychoanalytic Perspective, Humanistic Perspective, Social cognitive Perspective and Trait Perspective. Each of these is thought to describe one 's individual personality or closely connected individuals.
Let us start with the Humanistic Perspective represents a positive outlook for human potential and free will. Humanistic theorists propose that human beings are naturally good people. As talked about in the past week, great explanation to this would be Maslow’s hierarchy …show more content…
Sigmund Freud developed this theory. Freud described the conscious mind, the things that we are aware of to the unconscious mind, the preconscious which is information you are currently not aware of, but can easily bring to conscious awareness and the unconscious. He compared the human mind to an iceberg, and the conscious, preconscious mind was the tip and mid of the iceberg with the unconscious mind the bottom underwater. According to Freud, each person possesses a certain level of psychoanalytical energy that consists of three basic structures. The three personality developments are the ID, the Ego and the
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PSY/211
Date
Professors Name
Characteristics and Qualities Scientists define personality as a combination of characteristics and qualities that form within an individual. This means the way we interact and behave with ourselves or socially and how one emotionally reacts to certain concepts. There are four certain perspectives of personality that will be discussed and how three of these theories are compared. Also, if taking part in personality assessments can have a negative, positive or have both end results. A personality theory, or perspective, is an attempt to describe and illustrate how people are the same, different or what makes an individual particular and rare. These theories are Psychoanalytic Perspective, Humanistic Perspective, Social cognitive Perspective and Trait Perspective. Each of these is thought to describe one 's individual personality or closely connected individuals.
Let us start with the Humanistic Perspective represents a positive outlook for human potential and free will. Humanistic theorists propose that human beings are naturally good people. As talked about in the past week, great explanation to this would be Maslow’s hierarchy …show more content…
Sigmund Freud developed this theory. Freud described the conscious mind, the things that we are aware of to the unconscious mind, the preconscious which is information you are currently not aware of, but can easily bring to conscious awareness and the unconscious. He compared the human mind to an iceberg, and the conscious, preconscious mind was the tip and mid of the iceberg with the unconscious mind the bottom underwater. According to Freud, each person possesses a certain level of psychoanalytical energy that consists of three basic structures. The three personality developments are the ID, the Ego and the