Personality and Identity
Your Personality
Why are you the way you are? What makes you unique? Why do you act and react in certain predictable ways?
Your personality is a combination of many characteristics that makes you different from any other person. Personality is made up of your emotional needs, attitudes, thoughts, and daily behaviors. Personality is the topic for the popular discussion of nature vs. nurture. What is most influential in making you the person you are today, the environment you grow up in or the traits you inherited from your parents? Most psychologists now agree that environment and heredity both greatly influence the person you have and will become.
But how do personalities develop? In the following assignment, you will explore three of the most prominent theories of personality development. You will examine the theories of Sigmund Freud, Erik Erikson, and Abraham Maslow (shown below) and evaluate them to see which ideas from the theories match your own personality development.
