Personality is defined as a person's distinctive and somewhat consistent patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving (Hockenbury & Hockenbury, 2014). This article will cover personality perspectives, personality development comparison and how personalities are assessed, benefits and issues to consider. Personality theories can be grouped under four simple perspectives: the psychoanalytic, humanistic, socially cognitive, and trait perspectives. Psychoanalytic perspectives emphasize the significance of unconscious progressions, the importance of sexual and aggressive instincts, and early childhood experience. Humanistic perspectives examine a person's potential for flourishing and human nature. The social cognitive perspective emphasizes the importance of what one believes about oneself, goal setting, and self-regulation. Last but not least, from a trait perspective, emphasize representation and depth of detailed individual personality and how they differ from each other. "According to Freud (1905), people progress through five stages of psychosexual development. The foundations of adult personality are established during the first five years of life, as the child progresses through the psychosexual stages oral, anal and phallic The latency stage occurs in late childhood, and the fifth and final stage, the genital stage, begins in adolescence” (Hockenbury & Hockenbury, 2014). Freudians disagreed with Freud; they disputed Freud's belief that behavior was primarily driven by sexual drives. Neo-Freudians believed that personality could also be influenced by experiences throughout life. life” (Hockenbury & Hockenbury, 2014) “Jung believed that people are motivated by a more general mental energy that drives ...... middle of paper... ...same person and arrive at different decisions Third. , projective tests often fail to produce reliable results. If the same person takes a projective test twice, very different results may be obtained. Finally, projective tests are poorly capable of predicting. future conduct (Hockenbury & Hockenbury, 2014). The problems with testing self-report inventories are that, regardless of the addition of items intended to detect deliberate dishonesty, there is ample evidence that people can still falsify responses effectively. Some people respond. in a certain way. Some people are not honest about their own quality. Personality tests are generally useful approaches that can provide insight into the psychological personality of people. But no personality test, on its own, is likely to give a definitive picture of a particular person (Hockenbury & Hockenbury, 2014