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Four Basic Theories of
Personality
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Trait TheoryAn approach for analyzing thestructure of personality bymeasuring, identifying and
classifying similarities anddierences in personalitycharacteristics or traits.
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Psychoanalytic
TheorySigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory ofpersonality argues that human behavior is theresult of the interactions among three
component parts of the mind: the id, ego, andsuperego.
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Humanistic
TheoryThey believe that human beings
are endowed with free choicethus, a person carves out hisown destiny.
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Socio-cognitive
Theoryprovides a framewor! forunderstanding, predicting, and
changing of human behavior.
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