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    The document discusses several theories of personality: 1) Psychoanalytic theory focuses on unconscious motives and conflicts from childhood that influence behavior. 2) Humanistic theory emphasizes people's inherent tendency for self-actualization and fulfillment. 3) Behavioral/social theory views personality as shaped by conditioning and environmental influences rather than internal mental processes.

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    NOTE: There are three major issues one must consider regarding the nature of personality:

    ■Genetic versus environmental influences ■Conscious versus unconscious behavior ■Free will versus determinism

    Personality Theories Matrix


    Behavioral/
    THEORY Psychoanalytic Neo-Freudian Trait Biological Humanistic Social Cognitive
    School of The origin of the
    Thought personality lies in the
    workings of the
    (List the factors
    unconscious mind,
    related to
    specifically in the
    personality
    balance among the id,
    development that
    ego, and superego.
    each school
    Unconscious motives
    emphasizes.)
    and the conflicts that
    surround them
    influence our behavior,
    even though we are
    unaware of their
    existence.

    Freud’s psychosexual
    stages describe the
    major themes
    encountered during
    development:
    Oral-Focus on oral
    satisfaction.
    Anal-Concern with
    anus and feces.
    Phallic-Fear of
    castration from father--
    sexual desires for one’s
    mother.
    Latency-Absence of
    strong sexual energy.
    Genital-Maturity of
    sexuality.
    Fixation caused by
    traumatic events during
    any of the pregenital
    stages can result in
    excessive libido being
    attached to that stage
    of development (i.e.,
    excessively seeking
    gratification). This
    fixation can produce
    psychological
    disturbances and
    impact the development
    of one’s personality.

    Principles Humanism is Behaviorism


    (In addition to characterized by emphasizes the
    those related to the view that difficulty of
    personality, list human beings studying private
    some important possess an mental
    components of innate tendency processes
    each school of to improve and because only
    thought.) determine their outward
    lives by the behavior can
    decisions they be measured.
    make.
    It suggests that
    Behavior is goal behavior can
    directed, and be understood
    emphasis is and controlled
    placed on unique, in very precise
    individual, and predictable
    subjective ways through
    experiences. principles of
    conditioning,
    The natural e.g., positive
    tendency of reinforcement,
    human beings to punishment,
    move toward self- negative
    actualization and reinforcement,
    the realization of chaining,
    our full potential shaping, etc.
    is at the forefront
    of this theory. It emphasizes
    determinism
    Rogers views over free will in
    people as that behavior is
    basically good or determined by
    healthy—or at the inherited
    very least not bad capabilities,
    or ill. He sees conditioned
    mental health as responses, and
    the normal stimuli in a
    progression of given situation.
    life, and he sees
    mental illness,
    criminality, and
    other human
    problems as
    distortions of that
    natural tendency.

    Practitioners Sigmund Freud Alfred Adler Gordon Alport Hans Eysenck Carl Rogers John B. Watson George Kelly
    Carl Jung Henry Murray Arnold Buss Abraham Maslow B. F. Skinner Albert Ellis
    Erik Erikson Raymond B. Robert Plomin Julian Rotter
    Karen Horney Cattell Albert Bandura
    Harry Stack
    Sullivan
    Erich Fromm

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