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Personality

ICSE · Class 12 · Psychology

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Meaning and Definition of Personality

  • The word personality has its root in the Latin word persona, meaning mask.
  • Personality refers to stable and unique behaviour, thought process, and emotional reactions taken together as a whole.
  • A scientific view of personality includes visible behaviour as well as less visible characteristics such as values, abilities, and motives.
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Type Theories of Personality

  • Type theories classify personality into categories based on physical structure, mental structure, or social participation.
  • These theories are increasingly becoming obsolete because human characteristics overlap and do not fit neatly into fixed categories.
  • Jung classified human beings as introverts or extroverts based on social participation.
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Freud’s Psychoanalytic Theory

  • Sigmund Freud was born in the Czech Republic and spent his life in Vienna, Austria.
  • Freud first used hypnosis to treat hysteria before developing psychoanalysis.
  • Freud described four central ideas of personality: levels of consciousness, structure of personality, defense mechanisms, and psychosexual stages of development.

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