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The Psychology Of Personality Development: Behaviourist, Biological and Psychodynamic Perspectives.
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THE PSYCHOLOGY OF PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT: BEHAVIOURIST, BIOLOGICAL AND PSYCHODYNAMIC PERSPECTIVES This essay will compare three psychological theories on the topic of the development of a person's personality and their behaviour. The psychological areas that will be discussed are the behaviourist perspective, the psychodynamic perspective and the biological perspective. Each of these areas have differing views of how the personality is formed. The behaviourist theory in its simplest form states that a person's learning and development is based entirely on their social surroundings. They are thought to discover how to act and behave by certain learning methods. The first of these that will be looked at is classical conditioning. This was first described by the Russian, Ivan Pavlov, and his famous experiment, 'Pavlov's Dog' which was carried out during the 1920s. His experiment looked at the salivation of dogs. When food, an unconditional stimulus, was presented to the dog, it would salivate, an...
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