PERSONALITY
,INTRODUCTION TO
PERSONALITY
,INTRODUCTION TO PERSONALITY
Personality= “a reasonably stable pattern of emotions, motives and behaviour that
distinguishes people from one another”. This talks about consistency in personality and
distinctiveness from others.
The 5 key questions:
• Free will vs determinism (Sapprington- there is continuum of choice)
• Objective vs subjective (whether emotions are hidden or surface level)
• Variability vs consistency (whether behaviour changes depending on time and place)
• Nature vs individuality (Murray’s dictum- we are either all the same, similar or unique)
• Prediction, control and understanding personality
, INTRODUCTION TO PERSONALITY
Personality theory- a system of related ideas used to explain the development, structure an
function (phenomena) of personality: Weitan.
The 4 main approaches:
• Psychoanalytical- Freud, looks at childhood
• Biological/ dispositional- Allport, Cattell, Eysenck, Costa+ McCrae. Looks at the inheritan
of traits
• Behavioral/learning- Skinner, Bandura, Mischell. Whether personality can be learnt.
• Humanistic- Rogers+ Maslow, Cognitive- Kelley. Whether personality is a choice.
,INTRODUCTION TO
PERSONALITY
,INTRODUCTION TO PERSONALITY
Personality= “a reasonably stable pattern of emotions, motives and behaviour that
distinguishes people from one another”. This talks about consistency in personality and
distinctiveness from others.
The 5 key questions:
• Free will vs determinism (Sapprington- there is continuum of choice)
• Objective vs subjective (whether emotions are hidden or surface level)
• Variability vs consistency (whether behaviour changes depending on time and place)
• Nature vs individuality (Murray’s dictum- we are either all the same, similar or unique)
• Prediction, control and understanding personality
, INTRODUCTION TO PERSONALITY
Personality theory- a system of related ideas used to explain the development, structure an
function (phenomena) of personality: Weitan.
The 4 main approaches:
• Psychoanalytical- Freud, looks at childhood
• Biological/ dispositional- Allport, Cattell, Eysenck, Costa+ McCrae. Looks at the inheritan
of traits
• Behavioral/learning- Skinner, Bandura, Mischell. Whether personality can be learnt.
• Humanistic- Rogers+ Maslow, Cognitive- Kelley. Whether personality is a choice.
