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Psychology Miss Sihera 19/10/05 Personality Development Half term Homework - Essay Question Describe and evaluate one or more psychodynamic explanations of personality development (e.g. Freud) Personality has been defined by Child (1968) as "more or less stable, internal factors that make one's behaviour consistent from one time to another and different from the behaviour of other people would manifest in comparable situations". Hampson (1988) then picked out four key words, "stable", "internal", "consistent", and "different" and went on to develop the definition. But how do we develop our personality? Freud established a way in which he thought our personality was developed. Firstly, he suggests that the mind is divided into three parts (tripartite personality); the ID, the Ego and the Superego. The ID is also known at the pleasure principle, as it our innate drives (main instinctual drives being sex and aggression) that we are born with i.e. instant gratification e.g. "I want it...

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