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The development of the beliefs, moods, and behaviors that differentiate among people.
| Perspective | Assumed Processes | Primary Outcomes |
| Temperament | Inherent physiological mechanisms | Ease of arousal, ability to regulate emotions and impulses, energy, reaction to unfamiliar people and events, dominant mood |
| Psychoanalytic | Conflict over sexual and hostile motives | Defenses, phobias, depressed mood |
| Attachment | Relation to the caretaker in the infant years | Control of impulse, social habits, security, anger, frustration tolerance, trust in others, capacity for love |
| Self | Interpretations of experience, identification | Guilt, shame, anxiety, self-confidence |
| Observed behavior | Acquired habits | Sociability, aggressive behavior, impulsivity, shyness, obedience |
The concept of personality refers to the profile of stable beliefs, moods, and behaviors that differentiate among children (and adults) who live in a particular society. The profiles that differentiate children across cultures of different historical times will not be the same because the most adaptive profiles vary with the values of the...
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