Essays on Personality Psychology

A dilemma that has been well known for several decades and continues to arise in today’s society is the theory of the ‘invisible child.’ The concept behind this theory is that in child abuse cases, children, their abuse, and their experiences are often overlooked. In...

In this day and age, motivation performs a crucial role in the productivity and prosperity of an employee. Through the lens of organizational behavior, there are two divisions regarding motivation; Extrinsic and Intrinsic motivation. The research and analysis in this essay concentrate on the impacts...

Introduction: This paper talks about the various motivational theories written over the years and further explanations are provided on the views of these authors. It also looks at how motivation and engagement are interrelated or interdependent on each other, when individuals are engaged they can...

Introduction In this reflective essay, I will analyze the effect a year twelve teacher had on my learning at a crucial point in my education. I will explore how she helped me learn effectively by improving my self-efficacy and motivation and by decreasing my levels...

To begin this essay, the definition of personality must be highlighted, according to Carver and Scheier (2003) personality is regarded as a pattern of behaviour and thoughts that occur during different times and situations which varies between each person. Personality has been classified in many...

Beginning in infancy, parents and caregivers provide experiences that differentially influence children’s self-efficacy. Home influences that help children interact effectively with the environment positively affect self-efficacy. Initial sources of self-efficacy are centered in the family, but the influence is bidirectional. Parents who provide an environment...

Every day, whether intended or not, the brain is constantly making little notes about everything one sees on a daily basis. One’s mind already decides what it’s doing and what it thinks without any effort of the person. Opinions are influenced unconsciously in one’s everyday...

The unconscious mind can be used to explain human behaviour and personalityю Freud coined the term psychoanalysis and published his theory in 1896 which focused on the treatment of neurotic disorder by bringing unconscious conflicts into the conscious awareness. Unconscious determinism states that our unconscious...

Human mind has always been a mystery for the researchers and scientist. The mind can either be in consciousness state or unconsciousness state. Consciousness is the state where the entity is aware of its surrounding, thoughts, memories and the feelings; while Unconsciousness is the state...

An American writer and lecturer, and the developer Dale Carnegie (1988) stated that “Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it. That is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.” Every people has their own fears. The...

Aquaphobia can stem from a traumatic or negative experience, not learning to swim, or can be inherited from one’s parents. Whatever the cause, all aquaphobics have one thing in common- they avoid being in or around a substance that covers 71% of the planet. Phobias...

Wondering why there are a lot of people who don’t want to get married? Well, do that no more because the answer is: most of these people fear commitment. They are Gamophobic. In the Greek language, Gamo means marriage and Phobos means phobia. Gamophobia is...

“I don’t care what people say about me. I do care about my mistakes,“ said Socrates. In the words of Socrates, there is no greater power and philosophy than oneself. When you want success as badly as you want air, then you will get it....

The scope of this paper is to explain how phobias develop and how systematic desensitization can be used to overcome these phobias using classical conditioning principles. The main classical conditioning principles are acquisition, extinction, habituation, and counterconditioning. “Classical conditioning helps explain many behavioral phenomena, especially...

Aerophobia is the fear of flying. Statistics reveal that many people suffer from it. Different factors can cause aerophobia like the fear of the unknown, the fear of heights, the fear of being in a tight space, the fear of not escaping, the fear of...

Motivation derived from the Latin word movere, meaning to move. Motivation is defined as “an inferred process within a person or animal that causes movement either toward a goal or away from an unpleasant situation.” (Wade Tavris Garry, 421) Motivation comes in many forms. There...

Personality is the most precious gift that every human being has, as Goethe says in his book Faust “the magi also say, and the kings also say that in the world we have, personality is the supreme good”. One of the most popular methods of...

Personality is the special combination of qualities in a person that makes that person different from others, as shown by the way the person behaves, feels, and thinks. In this essay I will summarize some of my insights from self-awareness questions. Also I will be...

Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club is about Chinese immigrant mothers and their daughters who struggle in keeping balance in their lives. Waverly, a chess prodigy, struggles to fulfill the wishes of the people around her while also trying to fulfill her own wishes. Waverly...