Culture has been defined as patterns that have been created over time that are representative of the members of a particular society. These patterns are not inherited but they include traditions, symbol, language, and values (Matsumoto, 2001). Modern psychology recognizes that culture and the workings of the mind are not...

Freud's theory talks about 5 psychosexual stages through which personality development occurs. These stages of development occur from birth till 18 years of age. According to this theory, if a particular stage is not completed successfully, the individual will be fixated on that stage and will carry the consequences into...

Alfred Adler developed what is now known as individual psychology in the early 1900s (Fall, Holden, & Marquis, 2002). Adler’s theory separated him from Sigmund Freud, who was focused on the psychoanalytic school of thought. Individual psychology focused on the study of human character from a holistic standpoint, and continues...

According to the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), my four letters are INFP. As an INFP, I am more interested in saving the world versus saving myself. INFPs are idealistic people that want to help other people in anyway that they can. We are people that base our life decisions off...

Piaget’s stages of cognitive development present a sharp contrast from the assumptions made by Bandura in the social learning theory. Piaget’s cognitive development theory asserts that there are four different stages children go through (Flinders University, 2013). In each stage, the child’s cognitive processes are continuing to develop. However, each...