... understand personalities are psychology and psychiatry: Within psychology, debates and theories on personality are complex and far ranging. Personality theories seek to explain how people behave now, and predict how they will behave in future, it seeks to explain how personality is formed, emphasizing different factors that determine or shape its development. All personality theories seek to explain personality as qualities or characteristics which represent the person as an individual (unit 8, section 2, pp.32). This essay will now look at these explanations as four broad approaches; let us look at these approaches from a holistic model point of view and we will see that the different theories emphasise different dimensions of the person who of course is at the center of the holistic model: * Biological: The biological approach takes into account the psychological dimension of the holistic model. Biological theories emphasise how personality is inherited, the roles of genes and ...

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