Who has NOT propounded any theory of personality?

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  1. B.F. Skinner
  2. Sigmund Freud
  3. Gordon Allport
  4. Ramond B. Cattell

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Option 1 : B.F. Skinner
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Personality is an all-inclusive concept and includes in it all the traits and tendencies that bring about consistency and dynamism in personality. 

  • It is the total of an individual’s properties as a distinct and unique human being.
  • The external properties are directly observed, while the internal is only inferred from the behavior of a person.

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Psychologist

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Theory of Personality 

Sigmund Freud.

  • Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst. 
  • He gave the psychoanalytic approach.
  • Freud believed that events in our childhood greatly influence our adult lives, shaping our personality.
  • Freud's life work was dominated by his attempts to find ways of penetrating this often subtle and elaborate camouflage that obscures the hidden structure and processes of personality.

Gordan Allport

  • Gordon Willard Allport was an American psychologist.
  • Allport was one of the first psychologists to focus on the study of personality and is often referred to as one of the founding figures of personality psychology.
  • Allport is perhaps best known for his trait theory of personality.

Carl Rogers

  • Carl Ransom Rogers was an American psychologist and among the founders of the humanistic approach in psychology.
  • Carl Rogers (1959) believed that humans have one basic motive, the tendency to self-actualize.

Ramond B. Cattell

  • Cattell was of the view that personality has to be considered in terms of not only traits but also various other variables including attitudes, sentiments, and urges.​ 
  • Cattell developed an assessment based on these 16 personality factors. 
  • The test is known as the 16PF Personality Questionnaire and is still frequently used today, especially in career counseling, marital counseling, and in business for employee testing and selection.

Thus by all these references, we can conclude that B.F. skinner has not propounded any theory of personality.

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  • B. F. Skinner (1904 - 1990) was an American. His experiments on operant conditioning won him worldwide fame. Skinner defined operant conditioning as the process of learning that elicits operant behavior. According to Skinner, there are two types of behaviors, namely respondent behavior, and operant behavior.
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