Personality refers to unique patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving. There are several perspectives on personality including psychoanalytic, humanistic, social cognitive and trait theories. The psychoanalytic perspective emphasizes unconscious motivations and was developed by Sigmund Freud who described the id, ego and superego. Defense mechanisms and psychosexual stages are also part of psychoanalytic theory. Personality is assessed using both projective tests and self-report inventories which each have strengths and weaknesses.

5. Information which can easily be made conscious Information in your immediate awareness Rational, planful, mediating dimension of personality Moralistic, judgmental, perfectionist dimension of personality Irrational, illogical, impulsive dimension of personality Thoughts, feelings, urges, and other information that is difficult to bring to conscious awareness

34. Reciprocal Determinism— Albert Bandura