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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.