Psychodynamic Approach To Personality
Personality Theories Paper
Amanda Tomlinson
Psy211
January 21, 2013
Wanda Rush
Personality Theories Paper
We talk about personalities all the time. We talk about which personalities we like and which ones we hate, but do we really know what a personality is or what makes up a personality? According to Psychology and your life by Robert S. Feldman (2010), “A personality is the pattern of enduring characteristics that produce the consistency and individuality in a given person” (335). There are many different approaches to personality. Two of the approaches to personality are the psychodynamic approach and the behavioral approach.
The psychodynamic approach to personality is the “approach that assumes that personality is motivated by inner …show more content…
Those components are id, ego and superego. Id is the raw, unorganized, inborn part of personality. It reduces tension by primitive drives starting from the time of birth. Ego is strives to balance the desires of id and the outside world. Ego begins to develop shortly after birth. Superego represents the rights and wrongs of society that are taught and modeled by any significant person in a person’s life. Superego is develops during childhood. He also provided us with a view of how personality develops through a series of five psychosexual stages. In the article “Freud, Sigmund (1856-1939).” Matthew Hugh Erdelyi states that “Freud is well known, and much criticized, for his theory of infantile sexuality, which holds that children are sexual creatures who, in the first years of life, go through "psychosexual" developmental stages (oral, anal, and phallic) that presage adult sexuality (the genital stage), reached at puberty after a period of sexual latency”(1). His theories have had a significant impact on the field of psychology. There are many that still use and accept his ideas, but there are some who still do not accept or even understand his …show more content…
The behavioral approach is “the approach that suggests that observable, measureable behavior should be the focus of study” (Feldman 17). B.F. Skinner is one of the theorists that influenced this approach. He said that personality is a collection of learned behavior patterns. He was the pioneer of operant conditioning. It is controlled by its consequences through rewards or punishments. Through operant conditioning a person associates a behavior with the consequence for that behavior. He was more interested in the ways of modifying behavior than he was with the consistencies in
Amanda Tomlinson
Psy211
January 21, 2013
Wanda Rush
Personality Theories Paper
We talk about personalities all the time. We talk about which personalities we like and which ones we hate, but do we really know what a personality is or what makes up a personality? According to Psychology and your life by Robert S. Feldman (2010), “A personality is the pattern of enduring characteristics that produce the consistency and individuality in a given person” (335). There are many different approaches to personality. Two of the approaches to personality are the psychodynamic approach and the behavioral approach.
The psychodynamic approach to personality is the “approach that assumes that personality is motivated by inner …show more content…
Those components are id, ego and superego. Id is the raw, unorganized, inborn part of personality. It reduces tension by primitive drives starting from the time of birth. Ego is strives to balance the desires of id and the outside world. Ego begins to develop shortly after birth. Superego represents the rights and wrongs of society that are taught and modeled by any significant person in a person’s life. Superego is develops during childhood. He also provided us with a view of how personality develops through a series of five psychosexual stages. In the article “Freud, Sigmund (1856-1939).” Matthew Hugh Erdelyi states that “Freud is well known, and much criticized, for his theory of infantile sexuality, which holds that children are sexual creatures who, in the first years of life, go through "psychosexual" developmental stages (oral, anal, and phallic) that presage adult sexuality (the genital stage), reached at puberty after a period of sexual latency”(1). His theories have had a significant impact on the field of psychology. There are many that still use and accept his ideas, but there are some who still do not accept or even understand his …show more content…
The behavioral approach is “the approach that suggests that observable, measureable behavior should be the focus of study” (Feldman 17). B.F. Skinner is one of the theorists that influenced this approach. He said that personality is a collection of learned behavior patterns. He was the pioneer of operant conditioning. It is controlled by its consequences through rewards or punishments. Through operant conditioning a person associates a behavior with the consequence for that behavior. He was more interested in the ways of modifying behavior than he was with the consistencies in