The psychodynamic theory of personality revolves around Sigmund Freud’s findings. He believed that the mental processes of the brain were unconscious and that people had three levels of awareness; the conscious, preconscious, and unconscious. The unconcious is the most important becuase contains feelings, memories, thoughts, and desires that influence the everyday actions without the person knowing that this is the case. The psychodynamic theory also seperates personalities into three distinct categories: the Id, Ego, and the Superego. The Id is the driven by the most basic human desires becuase it seeks immediate satisfaction. The Ego, on the other hand, is what uses logic to make sure the Id does not take over too much. Lastly, the Superego holds the morals learned from peers and the real world. A disadvantage of this theory is that people say Freud focused too much on sexual and aggressive urges. An advantage of Freud’s theory, however, is that it has explained that children who have experienced trauma arelikely to develop a …show more content…
For example, when they see someone receive a reward for a certain behavior or action. It also points out that in order for the individual to repeat an agreeable behavior, they must include their intellectual processes. Disadvantages of the social-cognitive theory is that it is so broad and that some aspects of the theory do not connect together. Thus, it is hard for the theory to have a single explaination on learning and personality. On the other hand, advantages of this theory include the way in which it focses on answering the questions of many human social behaviors and the role of reward in learning, and it has accumalated a lot of reasearch fpor back