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Personality Flashcards

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Personality

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Latin word ‘‘persona’’ i.e mask

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Factors shaping personality

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  1. Heredity
  2. Endocrine glands
  3. Family
  4. Peer group
  5. School
  6. Mass media
  7. Culture
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Psychoanalytic perspective

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Importance of early childhood experiences and unconscious mind in the development of personality

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Humanistic perspective

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Importance of free will and psychological growth in personality development

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Trait perspective

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Assumes that every individual possesses specific traits in different quantities & so every individual has a unique personality

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Type perspective

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Assumes that every individual has a unique personality type based on his physique, temperament & mental characteristics

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