What is Personality?

Personality is defined as a person’s distinctive and somewhat consistent patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving (Hockenbury & Hockenbury, 2014). This paper is going to cover personality perspectives, personality development comparison, and how personalities are assessed, the benefit and the issues to be considered.

Personality theories can be gathered under four simple perspectives: the psychoanalytic, humanistic, social cognitive, and trait perspectives. Psychoanalytic perspectives stress the meaning of unconscious progressions, sexual and aggression instinct importance, and experience from early childhood. Humanistic perspectives look at potential of a person self-fulfillment and a look at human nature. Social cognitive perspective stresses the significance of what one believe about their self, goal setting, and self-regulation. Last but not least trait perspective, stress the portrayal and depth of detailed individual personality and how it differ from one another.

"According to Freud (1905), people progress through five psychosexual stages of development. The foundations of adult personality are established during the first five years of life, as the child progresses through the oral, anal, and phallic psychosexual stages. The latency stage occurs during late childhood, and the fifth and final stage, the genital stage, begins in adolescence" (Hockenbury & Hockenbury, 2014).

“Neo-Freudians disagreed with Freud they took issue with Freud’s belief that behavior was primarily motivated by sexual urges. Neo-Freudians believed that personality can also be influenced by experiences throughout the lifespan” (Hockenbury & Hockenbury, 2014)
"Jung believed that people are motivated by a more general mental energy that pushes ...

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...same person and arrive at different decisions. Third, projective tests often fail to produce dependable results. If the same person takes a projective test on two separate occasions, very different results may be found. Finally, projective tests are poor at foreseeing upcoming conduct (Hockenbury & Hockenbury, 2014).
With the self-report inventories test the issues are as follow: regardless of the addition of items intended to notice deliberate dishonesty, there is extensive indication that people can still efficiently fake responses. Some people answer in a certain way. Some people are not truthful about their own quality. Personality tests are usually valuable approaches that can give perceptions about the psychological personality of people. But no personality test, by itself, is likely to give a final account of a particular person (Hockenbury & Hockenbury, 2014