Theories of Personality

Trait Theories
personality is composed of a number of broad dispositions or traits.
Hippocrates Big Five personality dimensions Hans J. Eysenck

Psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud
Unconscious
ID, EGO, SUPEREGO Ego: Defense Mechanisms

Stages of Personality Development

Oral Anal Phalllic Latency Genital

Neo-Freudian
New Freudian Psychoanalysts: Jung
Collective unconscious , Archetypes

Alder
Inferiority Complex

Horney
Greatest influence of personality- social relationships

Behavioral Theories
Watson and Skinner
Rewards and punishment determine future behavior

Social Cognitive
Bandura
Reciprocal determinism Self efficacy

Humanistic
Maslow
Hierarchy of needs

Rogers
Self concept Conditional and Unconditional Positive Regard