Personality, Perception and Attribution

http://www.mscareergirl.com/2010/08/10/perception-is-reality/ taken September 8 2010

In the world, the behavior of each person defines who he/she is and how he or she interacts in the in the real life. Constantly mankind is influence by other people, by religion or by the world tendencies.

There are some theories that help us understand the personality in all of us:
Trait theory is a major approach to the study of human personality, created by Gordon Allport. Trait theorists are primarily interested in the measurement of traits, which can be defined as habitual patterns of behavior, thought, and emotion. Allport defines inside his theory 5 different ways to analyzed the personality of a person, he call them The "Big Five" also referred to as the "Five-Factor Model" which are: Openness to Experience/Intellect: how creative and narrow a person can be when its explore new things in its life or in its work; conscientiousness: what level of compromising has with its life, but most important with his job.; extroversion: personality outward, how open can be a person in relation with other group of people; agreeableness: how nice and warm can a be a person, and vice versa; neuroticism: how a person can manage its emotions, it is the major factor of personality pathology.

The psychodynamic perspective created by Sigmund Freud includes all the theories in psychology that see human functioning based upon the interaction of drives and forces within the person, particularly unconscious between the different structures of the personality. He classified the level con consciousness in 3 different types such as: Conscious, preconscious and unconscious, the last two being not conscious because the personality of the person plays an important role and will define in the
future the way of how is going to behave.

The Humanistic Theory explained by Carl Rogers. First, Mr. Rogers talked about healthy development in terms of how the individual perceived their own being. A healthy individual will tend to see congruence between their sense of who they are (self) and who they feel they should be (ideal self). The second fundamental idea is Rogers's concept of the conditions for healthy growth, and the role of a therapist in fostering healthy growth. Through a process Rogers called person-centered therapy; the therapist seeks to provide empathy, openness, and unconditional positive regard.

Locus of control developed by Julian Rotter. Locus of Control refers to an individual's perception about the underlying main causes of events in his/her life. Or, more simply: “Do you believe that your destiny is controlled by yourself or by external forces (such as fate, god, or powerful others)?”