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Psychology and Personality

 

            Who am I, who are you, what makes us who we are, how do you determine personality? These are ordinary questions that come up from time to time, everyone's answers are different and everyone is right in their own opinion on these questions. After reviewing this subject and looking at my first lot of questions I myself have taken a closer look at what determines personality and what aspects make up our personality.
             The study of the human mind has left many notable psychologists with differing views to explanations on varying types of personality. Today I am comparing two different theories of personality. Different types of personality can depend on many factors that give an overall picture to why and how personalities are viewed or seen. How we form these theories can be from perceptions that are seen or theories that have been studied over time, seeing how reactions to events impact on humans and how this comes out in our personality. .
             Personality has many varying definitions although most relate to a unique set of patterns of behaviors that influence one's self and how they act on them. "Personality refers to an individual's characteristic patterns of thought, emotions and behaviour together with the psychological mechanisms (hidden or not hidden) behind those patterns." Funder, (2001.).
             In this essay viewpoints of Sigmund Freud and Carl Rogers, Funder and Hans Eysenck, will be looked at. We will examine Freud's theories on the unconscious mind and the psychoanalytic approach. While not everyone agrees with Freud's views they have been taken into account in many writings and findings on the human mind and the developments in the psychology field. Other psychologists have found differences in his analysis. Carl Rogers was a psychologist in America who made an outstanding contribution to the education and psychology work fields.


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