Perspectives Of Personality Psychology Paper

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After completing the lectures and learning about the different theorist’s perspectives in Personality Psychology. There are many perspectives and personal assessments to reflect on and different interpretations on why people may act the way they do. Overall, my perspective of others has change because there is a better understanding now of why people act the way they do. Essentially, it could be a factor of a personality disorder. A major part of Rotter theory is the internal locus, where what happens to oneself is the result of their own actions and external locus of control is where what happens is out of one’s control (Burger, 2015, p.404). Misunderstanding could easily happen when there is lack of knowledge of the personality factors. When

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