Personality
Introduction to Personality
PSY/405
Personality is defined as the combination of physical, mental, emotional and social characteristics of an individual. All together a person combining their physical such as looks their mental which would be the persons mind, emotional such as their emotions towards things and their social behavior with everyone. Each person has their own personality and not one person has the same type of personality as the next. This is what makes us all unique and gives us all our own ways about doing things. In order to understand our personality we go through personal growth and become more aware of who we are and how our personality is. There are many theororetical approaches to the theories of personality and that give more definition to the way our personalities are formed. The psychoanalytic theory of personally is a very interesting theory that has boggled the minds of many psychiatrists. This theory consists of three different parts of the personality. These parts are the Id, the ego and the superego. The ego is considered the functioning part of the personality. It is even the part of the personality that mediates between the id and superego. The Id is the part of us that is the pleasure seeker. The ego in turn tries to stop this. The superego is the moral side of our personality that tells us what we are doing is right or wrong. The only conscious part of the three elements considered in this theory is the ego. The behaviorist theory of personality is different from the psychoanalytic theory because it does not have a focus on the unconscious in any part of our personality. This theory focuses on our outside surroundings. It believes that a person’s culture and surroundings impact them to the point that they develop their personality based on these things. The social cognitive theory is somewhat like the behaviorist theory of personality. The only difference is that the social cognitive theory believes that people mock others
PSY/405
Personality is defined as the combination of physical, mental, emotional and social characteristics of an individual. All together a person combining their physical such as looks their mental which would be the persons mind, emotional such as their emotions towards things and their social behavior with everyone. Each person has their own personality and not one person has the same type of personality as the next. This is what makes us all unique and gives us all our own ways about doing things. In order to understand our personality we go through personal growth and become more aware of who we are and how our personality is. There are many theororetical approaches to the theories of personality and that give more definition to the way our personalities are formed. The psychoanalytic theory of personally is a very interesting theory that has boggled the minds of many psychiatrists. This theory consists of three different parts of the personality. These parts are the Id, the ego and the superego. The ego is considered the functioning part of the personality. It is even the part of the personality that mediates between the id and superego. The Id is the part of us that is the pleasure seeker. The ego in turn tries to stop this. The superego is the moral side of our personality that tells us what we are doing is right or wrong. The only conscious part of the three elements considered in this theory is the ego. The behaviorist theory of personality is different from the psychoanalytic theory because it does not have a focus on the unconscious in any part of our personality. This theory focuses on our outside surroundings. It believes that a person’s culture and surroundings impact them to the point that they develop their personality based on these things. The social cognitive theory is somewhat like the behaviorist theory of personality. The only difference is that the social cognitive theory believes that people mock others