PERSONALITY
PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORIES
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It exists only if everyone acted and thought alike
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It is mostly unstable.
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It is relatively consistent.
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It is not enduring, or it changes over time.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Personality refers to the enduring characteristics and behavior that comprise a person’s unique adjustment to life, including major traits, interests, drives, values, self-concept, abilities, and emotional patterns.
Detailed explanation-2: -Personality is an individual’s unique and relatively consistent pattern of thinking, feeling and behaving. There are four basic groups of theorists who try to describe and explain individual similarities and differences.
Detailed explanation-3: -A large new study published in Nature Human Behavior, however, provides evidence for the existence of at least four personality types: average, reserved, self-centered and role model.
Detailed explanation-4: -There are three criteria that are characterize personality traits: (1) consistency, (2) stability, and (3) individual differences. To have a personality trait, individuals must be somewhat consistent across situations in their behaviors related to the trait.