FREE ESSAY ON PERSONALITY

PERSONALITY

Freud, Piaget, Erikson, and Maslow are the last name of prominent psychologists. They have
all gone to great lengths to develop their own unique theories. The theories that they
have created, pertaining to personality, happen to be the four best-known theories of
personality growth.
Sigmund Freud developed the Psychoanalytic Approach. It centers on how instincts propel
development. Freud Suggested a chain-reaction would occur if a child had a difficulty in
a certain point in life. He identified five development stages from birth to the middle
of adolescence.
One who was influenced by Sigmund Freud was Jean Piaget. He focused on the stages of
intellectual development in children. He found that the responses of children and the
peers to questions on many subjects to be quite similar.
Erik Erikson examined development in terms of social reinforcement. Erikson believed that
a person's progress and development depended upon his or her social relations at key
points in life. Erikson also created eight stages called social development stages.
Abraham Maslow was another developer of an important theory. Maslow believed that human
needs were classified into different levels. He came up with the idea that the lower
basic needs, in the human needs pyramid, need to be met before more complex needs can be
fulfilled.
All of these psychologists created great theories that are used widely today. These
people contributed a great amount in their research. They did so because they never gave
up.