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Three Major Psychological Approaches to Personality

  • Dynamic (also called psychoanalytic)
    • Characteristics
      Person continually in conflict; opposing forces
      Source of forces = psychic apparatus
    • Psychic apparatus
      • Id: instinctual drives possessed at birth such as hunger, thirst
        sex and aggression most important drives (per Freud)
      • Ego: reconciles demands of id with "real" world
        moderates and guides basic instincts in line with society's norms
        provides capacity for delayed gratification
      • Superego: conscience ("internalized parent")
        shaped by social forces such as school, church, close acquaintances
  • Humanistic
  • Social learning

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