What makes you unique? Is it your special shoes you just bought? Is it your ability to excel in school? Everyone is different based on their personality. Our personalities make us who we are. Psychoanalysis, Humanism, and Trait Personality are theories in psychology that help explain our behaviors. We can use these theories to explain why Alfonso is so mean at school. Even though each of these theories are different, we can put them together by using defense mechanisms, psychosexual stages, Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, self-concept, surface and source traits, and the Big Five to understand Alfonso’s behavior. Psychoanalysis explains Alfonso’s behavior using the defense mechanisms, and psychosexual stages. According to Freud, defense mechanisms …show more content…
Maslow 's hierarchy of needs is a theory of motivation where he believes people move through different stages of five needs that motivate our behavior. In this, each stage of needs has to be met before progression to the next stage of need can occur. In Alfonso’s situation, his love and belonging needs are not being met. When his father beats up his mother it can easily be understood that he doesn’t have the support at his home. Due to the lack of support he receives he is disrespectful to his classmates because he is angry. This makes sense because since he is stuck in the love and belonging stage he cannot move up to the esteem stage. So, Alfonso is struggling with his esteem and this explains his actions. Humanism also deals with an individual’s self-concept. Someone’s self-concept is based on how they feel and involves their unconsciousness. Alfonso’s self concept in his situation would lead his to feeling anxious or fearful in some situations because of his unconsciousness. Our unconsciousness will hide feelings we don’t know exist and in Alfonso’s case his feelings would relate back to his alcoholic dad who beats his mother. For example, he may see someone about to be beat up at school and then cause a fight trying to protect the victim. Or, someone may tease Alfonso about his dad beating up his mom and it triggers his aggression. Self-concept is knowing a person’s …show more content…
Cattell defined that surface traits represent the personality characteristics easily seen by others and source traits are basic traits that underline the surface traits. In this situation, I can look at the surface and source traits of Alfonso and be able to understand his behaviors. Due to the trauma that Alfonso has experienced from his home life, I can confidently say that one of his source traits would include not being emotionally stable. This would then lead me to see that a surface trait of Alfonso’s in combative. This explains Alfonso’s behavior because it is showing how he has become combative; it all started with his home life. It is similar to a cause and effect situation. Because Alfonso gets hurt seeing his mother beat up he becomes combative with other people. Another part of the Trait Personality is the Big Five. This five-factor model represents the core descriptions of someone’s personality. It involves the factors of openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. We can use this to understand Alfonso’s behaviors by estimating how he would rank in each category. In this model the factor agreeableness refers to the basic emotional style of a person. Alfonso would score very low on this because he does not get along with his classmates. A person with a low score in this area is rude, irritable, and aggressive. This describes Alfonso’s
Psychodynamic, Trait, Behaviorism, and Humanistic are the four major theories of personality. Our personality is our unique characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting. These theories each have their own different explanation of how our personalities came to be. They offer an explanation of why we are the way that we are by using factors, drives, characteristics, and experiences.
Sigmund Freud is one of the most influential psychologists and had a very significant impact in psychoanalysis techniques. Not only was Freud considered the father of psychoanalytic theory, but he also developed the first comprehensive theory of personality (Burger, 2012).
In this section of the assignment I have chosen to compare a trait theory and a humanistic.
After reviewing all of theories of personalities throughout this course, I have found Freud’s Psychoanalytic Theory to be my favorite theory of personality because it focuses on the three component parts of the mind: the id, ego and superego. This “structural theory” of personality places great importance on how conflicts among the parts of the mind shape behavior and personality. These conflicts are mostly unconscious. Romans 12:2 new living translation version states, “Don't copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God's will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.” This scripture is relevant because the mind needs to be renewed.
Sigmund Freud was born on May 6, 1856, in Austria (?). His family moved to Vienna in 1860, and that is where Freud spent, mostly, the remainder of his life (?). Freud is considered the father of Psychoanalysis, the first acknowledged personality theory (?). His theory suggest that a person’s personality is controlled by their unconscious which is established in their early childhood. The psychoanalytic theory is made up of three different elements interacting to make up the human personality: the id, the ego, and the superego (?).
Who was Sigmund Freud? He is most commonly known as the father of psychoanalysis. His work sparked a chain of thinkers who can still be found today. The modern views on the brain and its workings can be traced back to Freud. How did he achieve such an accredited title and reputation? What influenced him? These questions can be answered through a look at Freud's childhood, adult life, and death.
Today, we live on earth holding approximately seven million people. Taking a closer look at the number of people we begin to take notice that not one person is identical to the other. What is it that makes us, as individuals, different from the rest of society? “We come into this little world with our own little nature, our own pattern of behavior, and our own natural reaction to people” (Littauer and Sweet 18). Not only do our features on the outside tell us apart from one another but our personalities also set us aside from others. Personality defends us as our own person. Personality is an individual’s process of thinking, feeling, and taking action toward something. Research helps to define the discovering, structuring, and the understanding
Personality is patterns of thinking, behavior and emotional responses that make up individuality over time. Psychologist attempt to understand how personality develops and its impact on how we behave. Several theories attempt to explain personality, using different approaches. The social-cognitive and humanistic approaches are two of many theories that attempt to explain personality. This essay will identify the main concepts of social-cognitive and humanistic approach, identify perspective differences and discuss approach limitations.
I believe our personalities make up who we are and how others perceive us at times. Personalities are our own unique qualities, that we possess as individuals. In writing this short paper, I have found that psychologists use assessments to define an individual’s personality to determine their qualities and what makes them different from other individuals. Through the Big Five Personality test, I found it difficult to define and understand an individual personality
Features of the Psychoanalytic and Humanistic Perspectives Outline the key features of the psychoanalytic and humanistic perspectives, and briefly compare and contrast their views on conscious experience, a person as an integrated whole, and the role of therapists in arriving at changes. Answer In explaining and predicting animal behaviour, different schools of psychology are of different perspectives; e.g. cognitive approach focuses on the mental processes, behaviourism is based on external stimuli and reinforcement, biological approach is concerned with the relationship between the mind and body and the influence of heredity. However, they are only cope with a specific part of people, but neglect human as a whole.
Famous psychological theorists Sigmund Freud and Carl Rogers were both the greatest researchers in our modern time. They both made a lot of advancement in psychological fields, clinical evidence and expertise. They both developed a theory of 'hidden' personality’, in which the psychologists theorized that people have a ‘hidden' personality within them, one which they are not aware of. This concept indicated that the human nature and the role play in rationale behind the human motivation. Sigmund Freud and Carl Rogers do have same common in their theories. They were both influenced by working within their patients and shared the familiarity through the many years of clinical performance. Based on their experimental studies, Sigmund Freud believed that the human nature is inherently aggressive, and Carl Rogers sustained that the people are innately are good. Indeed, Sigmund Freud and Carl Rogers have diverse opinions and different assumptions on the personality of a human. During the contemporary scientific research, I prefer to agree with Roger’s theory over the Freudian model because it is more in tune with findings of my experiences.
Raymond B. Cattell (1906-1998) studied the personality traits of large groups of people, calling the visible features of their personalities “surface traits.” During his studies, Cattell observed that certain “surface traits” would appear simultaneously in individuals. When Cattell noticed this trend occurring frequently he renamed the group of “surface traits” “source traits”. At the conclusion of his research Cattell identified sixteen “source traits.”
Mental disorders are dismissed by people today because they are internal. When a person has a cold they cough, when a person has sunburn they turn red or peel, but when a person has a mental disorder they… and that’s where the debate begins. Do mental disorders truly exist? What are the causes? As a result of mental disorders some people exhibit a change in behavior or do things outside of what is status quo. That leads me to my topic - the psychoanalytic approach vs. the humanistic approach. One supports and provides reasoning for mental disorders and specific behavior, while the other states that behavior is based off of personal decisions. Although both the psychoanalytic and the humanistic approaches are well developed theories it is conclusive that the psychoanalytic approach is more useful and instrumental in treating mental disorders.
The humanistic perspective on personality deals exclusively with human behavior. Humanistic psychologists believe that human nature includes a natural drive towards personal growth, that humans have the freedom to choose what they do regardless of environmental factors, and humans are mostly conscious beings and are not controlled by unconscious needs and conflicts. They also believe that a person's subjective view of the world is more important than objective reality. Two of the humanistic theorists that have made an impact of humanism are Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow.
When we are born, over time we grow up and develop a personality. For each person, our personalities differentiate between one another which presents a wide variety of individuals. According to psychology, there are different factors that make up who we are. Today, I will be talking about the four major theories of personality (Psychodynamic, five-factor model, humanistic, and social-cognitive).