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Your own theory of personality

Deprivation from each stage would mean negative drawbacks from society and different coping mechanisms will be employed

Another feature of this theory of personality would be that there are certain things in each level which serves as the reinforcer for people These reinforcers would motivate them towards attaining the second level . People have this nature of longing for the things they are yet to have in life . As they see and feel the good things in the next level of the hierarchy of needs , these would make them act accordingly in

for them to reach the second level . This operant conditioning stage gets into work when there is a transition from a lower level to a higher level . For example , when a person has satisfied the needs present in the first level , the person would be conditioned to work towards the needs listed in the second level by the satisfaction he /she feels for each level . Moreover , even when the person already has achieved that need , he would respond the same way to the stimuli

Furthermore , people would work their way towards these needs in accordance with the societal norms and as dictated by their ego . There are impulses produced by the id but it is controlled by the superego for the person to stay directed in their path upwards and to avoid negative social drawbacks due to the non-attainment of the needs in each level

I see these three particular constructs of Abraham Maslow , B .F Skinner , and Sigmund Freud namely hierarchy of needs , operant conditioning , and personality structures respectively as important factors for the personality of the human beings . These are simple to explain theories which can be easily related to the everyday living and behavior of people . In addition to this , they are among the theories that...

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