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Understanding Personality Theories

This document provides an overview of personality traits and tests. It defines personality as an individual's characteristic patterns of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors, as well as the underlying psychological mechanisms. It describes several major theories of personality, including trait theory, psychodynamic theory, and humanistic theory. It also outlines different methods used to measure personality, such as projective tests, behavioral measures, self-report questionnaires, and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. The document concludes by stating that personality psychologists should focus their efforts on the trait approach, psychoanalytic approach, biological factors, humanistic perspectives, behaviorist learning, cognitive approaches, and interactionist perspectives.

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Understanding Personality Theories

This document provides an overview of personality traits and tests. It defines personality as an individual's characteristic patterns of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors, as well as the underlying psychological mechanisms. It describes several major theories of personality, including trait theory, psychodynamic theory, and humanistic theory. It also outlines different methods used to measure personality, such as projective tests, behavioral measures, self-report questionnaires, and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. The document concludes by stating that personality psychologists should focus their efforts on the trait approach, psychoanalytic approach, biological factors, humanistic perspectives, behaviorist learning, cognitive approaches, and interactionist perspectives.

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Personality

Traits & Tests

DEBARSHI GHOSH
Introduction to Personality
Personality = an individual’s characteristic patterns
of thoughts, emotion, and behavior

 Plus the psychological mechanisms (hidden or not)


behind those patterns
What is Personality?
 How people differ at the individual level
 Personality
 An individual’s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling,
and acting
Personality Theories

Trait Theory - understand individuals by breaking


down behavior patterns into observable traits
Psychodynamic Theory - emphasizes the
unconscious determinants of behavior
Humanistic Theory - emphasizes individual
growth and improvement
Integrative Approach - describes personality as a
composite of an individual’s psychological
processes
How is Personality Measured?
Projective Test - elicits an individual’s response to
abstract stimuli
Behavioral Measures - personality assessments that
involve observing an individual’s behavior in a
controlled situation
Self-Report Questionnaire - assessment involving an
individual’s responses to questions
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) - instrument
measuring Jung’s theory of individual differences.
Rorschach Test
Rorschach Inkblot Test - Psychological Testing (gracepointwellness.org)
CBT Tool
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
(MBTI)
 The Big Five Personality test, also known as the
Five Factor Model, is a personality test based on
the assumption that personality can be sufficiently
described by five personality traits: Openness,
Conscientiousness, Extroversion, Agreeableness,
and Neuroticism.
Mission Impossible/Need to focus efforts

Personality psychologists must focus their efforts:


1. Trait approach = how people differ psychologically
from one another. Focus on personality traits.
2. Psychoanalytic approach = focus on unconscious
mind and internal conflict
3. Biological = address physiology, inheritance, and
evolution and relate these to personality
Basic Perspectives on Personality continued

4. Humanistic/phenomenological approach = focus on


conscious experience, focus on growth, spirituality, and
self-fulfillment
5. Behaviorist/learning – focus on science of learning,
impact of rewards, punishment
6. Cognitive approach – emphasizes human thought,
draws from modern cognitive psychology
7. Interactionist perspective – emphasizes that we are
different in different situations; situation and person
interact
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