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This term i took a course called "Personality Psychology". It's very interesting and also very difficult. The most important goal of Personality Psychology is to study how people differs each others in many aspects. It tries to identify and study the factors that causes one person to behave, feel and think differently from another person. The most controversy element of Personality Psychology is that there is not a single theory accepted. There are a lot of theories and methods, so the answers that satisfy one researcher usually differs from the answers to the same question that satisfy another reaseacher of personality psychology. There are several approaches that nowadays are very popular in the study of personality, and all of them have importantly influenced the way we think about personality. The most important approaches today are: psychodinamic, humanistic-existencial, biological research, and behavoriest and social cognitive.

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