TOP - Freud Psychoanalysis by Feist & Feist
PERSONALITY is a pattern of relatively permanent traits and unique characteristics that give both consistency and individuality to a person’s behavior. Traits con- tribute to individual differences in behavior, consistency of behavior over time, and stability of behavior across situations. Traits may be unique, common to some group, or shared by the entire species, but their pattern is different for each individual. Thus each person, though like others in some ways, has a unique personality. Characteristics are unique qualities of an individual that include such attributes as temperament, physique, and intelligence. Theory Defined A scientific theory is a set of related assumptions that allows scientists to use logical deductive reasoning to formulate testable hypotheses. First, a theory is a set of assumptions. A single assumption can never fill all the requirements of an adequate theory. A single assumption,...