Title: Personality psychology - Wikipedia
Headings: Personality psychology
Personality psychology
Contents
Philosophical assumptions
Personality theories
Type theories
Psychoanalytical theories
Behaviorist theories
Social cognitive theories
Humanistic theories
Biopsychological theories
Genetic basis of personality
Evolutionary theory
Drive theories
Personality tests
Personality theory assessment criteria
Methods measuring inner experience
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References
Further reading
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Content: It is a scientific study which aims to show how people are individually different due to psychological forces. Its areas of focus include: construction of a coherent picture of the individual and their major psychological processes
investigation of individual psychological differences
investigation of human nature and psychological similarities between individuals
"Personality" is a dynamic and organized set of characteristics possessed by a person that uniquely influences their environment, cognition, emotions, motivations, and behaviors in various situations. The word personality originates from the Latin persona, which means " mask ". Personality also refers to the pattern of thoughts, feelings, social adjustments, and behaviors consistently exhibited over time that strongly influences one's expectations, self-perceptions, values, and attitudes. Personality also predicts human reactions to other people, problems, and stress. Gordon Allport (1937) described two major ways to study personality: the nomothetic and the idiographic. Nomothetic psychology seeks general laws that can be applied to many different people, such as the principle of self-actualization or the trait of extraversion. Idiographic psychology is an attempt to understand the unique aspects of a particular individual.