Question

Choose one Psychological theorists and research the life history of the theorist.

Do the following:

Describe the major life events of the theorist that you feel influenced his or her personality development.

Describe the cultural influences that had an influence on the chosen theorist’s personality development.

Analyze this person from Freud’s psychoanalytic perspective.

Analyze this person from two other theoretical perspectives except for the trait perspective.

Summarize and present your critical opinion about how well (or not) these theories explain the person.

Answer 1

There are three major life events which influences personality development mainly environment, situation and heredity. These influences refers to the personality whcih are in your genes and you cann't change it. Heredity refers to your personality when you are born and it because of genes. It can include temperament which determine how you handle the situation or react and also these determine the looks. Environment is the nurturing aspect of life. Basically the environment in which we live or grow up and environment include school, work, home and other places where you spend lot of time and also include languages or religion. Situation is basically a experiences in which each people go through. Each individual experience various things which help them to develop their personality.

Culture is the most important influences which shapes the personality. Personality is influenced by environment and biological factor in which culture is the most imporatnt environment factor. Cultural influences on personality is most important influences because western theories and ideas are not applicable to other culture. Individual culture value personal achievements and independence competition while collectivist culture value respectfulness, social harmony and group needs. The cultural influences affect personality and behaviour also gender and influences developement of personality.

Freud feel people are basically a actors in the drams of their minds. The mind is important because it responsible for both unconscious and conscious decisions which are based on forces.

Traits describe the way in which we refer a person. The traits is a descriptive term which are short tempered and generous. These can be defined as a stable characteristics whcih cause a person to permit a response in any situation. These indicate that traits is a constant regardless of the situation.