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Introduction To Theories of Personality

This document provides an overview of personality theories. It defines personality as a pattern of traits that give consistency and individuality to a person's behavior. A theory is described as a set of ideas used to understand thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. The goals of theories are to describe, explain, predict, and control. Personality theories are generated by theorists with different life experiences and perspectives. A useful theory generates research, is falsifiable, organizes data, guides action, is internally consistent, and is parsimonious.

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Introduction To Theories of Personality

This document provides an overview of personality theories. It defines personality as a pattern of traits that give consistency and individuality to a person's behavior. A theory is described as a set of ideas used to understand thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. The goals of theories are to describe, explain, predict, and control. Personality theories are generated by theorists with different life experiences and perspectives. A useful theory generates research, is falsifiable, organizes data, guides action, is internally consistent, and is parsimonious.

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THEORIES OF

PERSONALITY
GONZALES, ABIGAIL B., RPm l MA Clinical Psychology

OUR
GOAL

To study the
forces and
factors that
SHAPE
personality

What is PERSONALITY?

Personality originated
from the Latin persona a
theatrical mask worn by
Roman actors in Greek
dramas to project a role or
false appearance
(Feist & Feist, 2009)

What is PERSONALITY?

PERSONALITY is a pattern
of relatively permanent traits
and unique characteristics
that give both consistency
and individuality to a persons
behavior.
(Feist & Feist, 2009)

What is PERSONALITY?

A THEORY is a set of
related assumptions that
allows scientists to use
logical deductive
reasoning to formulate
testable hypotheses
(Feist &Feist, 2009)

What is a THEORY?

A THEORY is a set of
related ideas used to
understand or explain
thoughts, emotions
and behaviors.

What is a THEORY?

1.
2.
3.
4.

Describe
Explain /Understand
Predict
Control

OALS of a THEORY

1. PHILOSOPHY, the love of wisdom, is a broader term than

theory, but one of its branches, EPISTEMOLOGY, relates


to the nature of knowledge, and theories are used by scientists
in the pursuit of knowledge.
2. THEORIES rely on speculation, but speculation in the

absence of controlled observations and empirical research is


essentially worthless.

heory and Its Relatives

3. HYPOTHESIS, or educated guess, is a narrower term than theory.


A single theory may generate hundreds of hypotheses
4. TAXONOMY means a classification system, and theories often rely
on some sort of classification of data. However, taxonomies do not
generate hypotheses.

heory and Its Relatives

Psychologists and other


scientists generate a variety of
theories because they have
different life experiences and
different ways of looking at the
same data.

Why different
Theorists?

Because personality theories


flow from an individual theorist's
personality, some psychologists
have proposed
the psychology of science, a
discipline that studies the
personal characteristics of
theorists

Theorists' Personalities and Their Theories of


Personality

1.

GENERATE

RESEARCH

both descriptive
research and hypothesis testing

2. Be FALSIFIABLE that is, research


findings should be able to either support of refute
the theory.

at Makes a Theory Useful?

3. ORGANIZE DATA into an


intelligible
framework and integrate
new information into its structure

4. GUIDE ACTION or provide the


practitioner with a road map for making day-to-day
decisions;

at Makes a Theory Useful?


A USEFUL THEORY

5. Be INTERNALLY
CONSISTENT and
have a set of operational definitions

6. Be PARSIMONIOUS or as
simple as
possible

at Makes a Theory Useful?

Determinism

Free Choice

Pessimism

Optimism

Causality

Teleology

Unconscious
Biological
Uniqueness

VERS
US

Conscious
Social
Similarities

Dimensions for a Concept of


Humanity

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