This page provides all possible meanings and translations of the word Combat. Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: A battle, a fight (often one in which weapons are used); a struggle for victory.
Personality psychology is the focus of some of the best known psychology theories by a number of famous thinkers including Sigmund Freud and Erik Erikson. In this section of the personality study guide, learn more about some of the major theories of personality and the psychologists who developed them.
Eriksonâs theory of psychosocial development is one of the best-known theories of personality. Similar to Freud, Erikson believed that personality develops in a series of stages. Unlike Freudâs theory of psychosexual stages, Eriksonâs theory describes the impact of social experience across the whole lifespan.