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What are we really talking about when we describe an individual? There are many fields in psychology that examine certain parts or particular views of the person, but only one field studies the person as a whole. With personality psychology we try to put all an individual’s components together. “The fundamental goal is to understand the person for the sake of understanding” (McAdams, 13).
Personality psychologists study the individual differences in people. They come up with ways to categorize, classify, and organize the diversity of human individuality, and they look for the environmental and biological factors that explain those differences. Personality theorists like Freud, Jung, and Adler wrote about personality psychology, but it was during the 1930s that a number of questions came together to generate a new field. Observations of everyday social interactions show that people make at least three kinds of attributions to their personality.......

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