Sigmund Freud believed that one important determinant of personality was

A) striving to achieve self-actualization.
B) the influence of images from the collective unconscious.
C) fixation at an immature stage of psychosexual development.
D) behaviors learned through classical and operant conditioning.

Personality

A unique set of emotional, thought, and behavioral patterns that define how a person reacts to situations and interacts with others.

Psychosexual Development

Psychosexual development is a concept in Freudian psychology that outlines how personality develops through various stages of childhood, each characterized by a different focus of libido or sexual energy.

Fixation

An obsessive or persistent focus on an object, concept, or person that can impede emotional and developmental growth.