7.3

Personality Theories

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Psychoanalytic/Psychodynamic perspective

Sigmund Freud

Structure of personality

Levels of consciousness

Psychosexual stages

Defense mechanisms

Neo-Freudians

Criticisms of psychoanalytic theory

Humanistic perspective

Abraham Maslow

Carl Rogers

Criticisms of humanistic psychology

Trait perspective

Gordon Allport

Hans Eysenck

The Big Five (OCEAN)

Criticisms of trait perspective

Social-cognitive perspective

Albert Bandura

Julian Rotter — Locus of control

Learned helplessness (Seligman)

Personality assessment

Self-report inventories

Projective tests

The person-situation debate

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