The Psychodynamic Perspective

The psychodynamic perspective focuses on the role of the unconscious mind in the development of personality and was studied by Sigmund Freud. Present when you were an infant, the first and most primitive part of the personality would be called the id. Id means that you did whatever you pleased whenever you wanted. For example, you cried when you wanted, you peed and pooped whenever, and you slept when you wanted. As you begin to grow, your parents began to deny your every wish. For instance, there are some things you just are not supposed to hold or touch, and you must learn to wait on certain things, like food. This stage of the psychodynamic theory is having to deal with reality, which ends up creating a new personality called the ego.
The ego works on the reality principle, which is the need to satisfy the demands of the id only in certain ways that would not lead to negative consequences. The next stage of the psychodynamic perspective is called the superego. The superego develops in preschool, learning about rules, customs, and expectations. The superego is the most mature personality of the stages and also contains the conscience which causes guilt. Another personality would be by the trait perspective. The trait theory has more to do with what you do with your personality and where it comes from. The trait theory is saying that your personality is based on your biologically determined. Which makes sense, because you grow up learning what your parents do and how they act. A trait is a consistent, enduring way of thinking, feeling, or behaving, and trait theories attempt to describe personality in terms of a person’s traits. There are five trait dimensions known as the five-factor model, or the big five and represent the core description of human personality. The five trait dimensions include: openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism.