This paper will reflect on the definition of personality...

This paper will reflect on the definition of personality and some key definitions that define our behavior but not us as individuals. Understanding personality differences is a start of knowing how to adapt when other personalities are presented. In order to understand what personality is let start by defining personality. Personality is a combination of his or her interests, attitude behavior patterns and other traits that may continue throughout his or her life span. â€Å"The definition has two important components. First, each person’s of thinking, feeling, and behaving makes him or her distinctive. The second defining component is the notion that an individual’s personality is relatively consistent (Davis, Palladino, †¦show more content†¦For example our daughter usually dates someone exactly like her father and our son will date someone like their mother. The third personality theory is Cognitive- Behavioral Perspective focuses on patterns of thinking and behavior and how these patterns are reinforced and maintained by the person within his or her environment. It is a practical approach in which the main object is to define goals and techniques to reach the client. Last but not least the Humani stic Perspective that emphasizes on individuals control of their behavior. It focuses on conscious influences on behavior and on the aspects of human nature (p. 475). It looks at the person as a whole including the mind, body and soul. Perhaps the theories are unfamiliar but the nine different defense mechanisms possibility can help understand them. The nine defense mechanisms are; anxiety, denial, repression, projection, reaction formation, displacement, sublimation, compensation and regression. A person can have just one defense mechanisms are several and identifying them early can help the individual person and his or her surroundings. 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