Evaluating Personality Theorists Dimensions For A Concept Of Humanity

List each of these dimensions and explain your assumptions about humanity on the basis of each of these dimensions. This will allow you to evaluate your own assumptions about humanity.
To outline a framework (Dimensions for a Concept of Humanity) for understanding personality theorists’ conceptualizations of human behavior and personality, the authors, Feist, and Roberts, used the following dimensions: determinism versus free choice, pessimism versus optimism, conscious versus unconscious determinants of behavior, causality versus teleology, biological versus social influences on personality and uniqueness versus similarities.
My assumptions about humanity are the following: determinism over free choice, optimism over pessimism, unconscious

I assume that human behavior, personality, is determined by uncontrollable outside forces (Feist, J., & Feist, G., 2008). For example, our early human interactions such as our culture and social experiences have a “causes”, and every cause has a determined effect. Personality, as it turns out, is completely determined by our culture and social factors. “Individualist cultures tend to believe that independence, competition, and personal achievement are important. In contrast, people who live in collectivist cultures tend to value social harmony, respectfulness, and group needs over individual needs” (Boundless Psychology). I assume that humans can “change and grow into psychologically healthy, happy, fully functioning human being” through positive thinking (Feist, J., & Feist, G., 2008). Positive thinking and mindfulness are often used in holistic treatments in psychology. A student will be better equipped to ask questions to reflect their recent event when they are

As I mentioned above about optimism, humans are humanly equipped to want to fix their problems, so they must also be humanly equipped also to learn from their bad events or problems. I assume that humans aren’t “aware of what they are doing” that human behavior is invisible (Feist, J., & Feist, G., 2008). Our inhibitory defenses are a good example of human behavior being invisible to ourselves; our defensive mechanism blocks our conscious awareness even when we aren’t aware of it. When we are mad at ourselves, we sometimes unknowingly transfer our feelings to another. I assume that human’s personality is molded by “their social relationships” (Feist, J., & Feist, G., 2008). Early childhood experiences have taught us that we develop or underdeveloped from group experiences because it was either good or bad. In Freud’s Psychosexual Development, in each stage, parents need to provide their children with their basic needs, but little or too much fulfillment, then the child won’t grow into a healthy personality. I assume that humans try to “concentrate on those traits that make people alike” (Feist, J., & Feist, G., 2008). I strongly believe that those who are affiliated with their culture have the same way of thinking and