Avoidance And Personality Theory

Avoidance.

Avoidance is the act of avoiding or keeping away from something or someone. Avoidance include staying away from thoughts, conversations, activities, places or people that in PTSD could remind the victim of the trauma undergone.

Avoidance can be seen in rape victims for example, they could avoid to fill in charges on the person that attacked her/him, or to avoid the place of the accident as for example, “take the longer way home”. In a veteran the symptom of avoidance could be not talk about the time in war or avoiding meeting with the people who were with him/her in combat.

Depression.

Symptoms of depression include the feeling of being helpless. Some cases of depression could include that a person who started out with great grades

“the implicit personality theory; a subject’s assumption about how the trait of other persons are related to each other” at the same time as the two researchers, Cronbach (1955) used the term to describe a subjects assumption about the mean and variance of other people on a certain trait and the covariance between that trait and other traits in a person.

Describing what theory in IPT means in the concept is that it consists of a set of relations the link the concepts together. It’s a personality theory because the concept are usually traits and the relation between them, and an implicit personality theory because it IA no immediately assessable to the person (Wegner and Vallecher 1977).

In psychology the significance of IPT is that “traits correlations mirror both the structure of language and the structure of behaviour” .

The importance of IPT in psychology consist in understanding, explaining, predicting and changing the person perceptions and behaviours.

People often they describe others in terms of traits this is for instance: to get a general picture of the other person, how one person is in comparison of another and to predict future behaviours. “To be able efficiently to interact with and react towards the other person”