PSY 405 Personality Theories

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Psychodynamic Personality Theories Matrix
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Theory Assumptions Reliability Validity Application
Psychoanalytic  The psychoanalytic method Create a thesis,  The significance and  Gender Role Improvement
Theory presumes that the psychological province of the legality of psychoanalysis  Therapy
tools of the brain require a type mind, dynamics of as a philosophy and cure (Psychoanalysis)
of power to make it work. This personality defense is  Affection (Bowlb)
power is utilized in mechanism, made questionable, from  - Moral Development
psychological tasks like experimentation the time it started in the (superego
preparations, thoughts, emotions with a drug 1900s.
recalled. (cocaine).

Individual  Freud believed that a portion of That is, when  Adler does not have  Fantasies
Psychological our unconscious originates from explanations built on a talent in writing so  Psychotherapy
Theory
 
the experiences of our early individual philosophers like Maslow,
ancestors that have been passed experiences were not Rogers, and Ellis
on to us through hundreds of adequate, Freud integrated
generations of repetition. He would turn to the Adler’s piece in their
called the inherited unconscious idea of collectively conclusions. This
images our phylogenetic inherited improved
endowment (Freud, 1917/1963, experiences to fill in Adler’s legitimacy of
1933/1964). the gaps, left by Individual Psychology.
individual
experiences.

Analytical Carl Jung hypothesized - Jung scored -Carl Jung’s philosophies - Fantasy examination
Psychological the idea that occult below average to to confirm. - Active Thoughts
Theory
incidents can impact the life of medium in the -Jung’s categorization and - Psychotherapy
anyone (Feist & Feist, majority of fields typology/purpose/behavio
2009). of reliability like: rs
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-People are not
negative nor are they positive
-People go the way of
advancement or
degeneration
-No one’s shy or loud.
-Men and women
practice their thought
process, experience,
wisdom, and unconscious
individuals)
Object A mother and child’s
Relations connection is the
Theory
one of a kind. Most children live
in a fantasy life, and are unaware
of intuition. There are
two kinds: paranoid schizoid
and depressive.
Psychoanalytic The psychoanalytic social theory
Social Theory of Karen Horney (pronounced
Horn-eye) was built on the
assumption that social and
cultural conditions, especially
childhood experiences, are
largely responsible for shaping
personality. People who do not
have their needs for love and
affection satisfied during
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practicality can be examined and
-planned checked and has gained an
investigation, average figure of
internal reliability investigation
-frugality - high score in
-model intellectual organization,
-communal guide to action, and
unawareness frugality.
-self unawareness -diagnostic psychology is
distinct gives a different
component to behavioral
philosophy.
-Absence of new studies
and general philosophy
subject is not well
developed, focusing on
neurosis.
-arrange data on truth from fantasy because -Affection philosophy
child personality of the internal philosophy -Eating disorders
-not applicable to in the thought process that -infancy psychoanalysis
teenagers and cannot examined. low
older individuals score
-BORI feedback in frugality.
form
Horney’s Horney’s theory falls Horney’s theory was based
psychoanalytic short on its power both to largely on clinical experiences
social theory has not generate research and to that put her in contact mostly with
directly inspired a submit to the criterion of neurotic individuals. To her
great deal of falsifiability. Speculations credit, she was reluctant to make
research in modern from the theory do not specific assumptions about
personality easily yield testable psychologically healthy
psychology. Her hypotheses and therefore individuals. Because her theory
musings on neurotic lack both verifiability and deals mostly with neurotics, it is
trends however are falsifiability (Feist, & rated high on its ability to
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childhood develop basic hostility
toward their parents and, as a
consequence, suffer from basic
anxiety (Feist, & Feist 2009).
 
Interpersonal Sullivan insisted that knowledge
Theory of human personality can be
gained only through the
scientific study of interpersonal
relations. His interpersonal
theory emphasizes the
importance of various
developmental stages—infancy,
childhood, the juvenile era,
preadolescence, early
adolescence, late adolescence,
and adulthood (Feist, & Feist
2009).
 
Feist, J., & Feist, G.J. (2009). Theories of Personality (7th ed..). New York, NY: McGraw Hill.
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quite relevant to Feist 2009). organize knowledge of neurotics
much of the research   but very low on its capacity to
being conducted explain what is known about
today on neuroticism people in general (Feist, & Feist
(Feist, & Feist 2009).
2009).   
Research tends to  A useful theory must be  Sullivan’s ability to successfully
support Sullivan’s falsifiable; that is, it must treat schizophrenic patients
assumptions that be specific enough to undoubtedly was greatly
having an imaginary suggest research that may enhanced by his deeply held
playmate is a either support or fail to belief that they shared a common
normal, healthy support its major humanity with the therapist.
experience. It is assumptions. On this Having experienced at least one
neither a sign of criterion, Sullivan’s schizophrenic episode himself,
pathology nor a theory, like those of Sullivan was able to form an
result of feelings of Freud, Jung, and Fromm, empathic bond with these patients
loneliness and must receive a very low through his role as a participant
alienation from other mark. Sullivan’s notion of observer (Feist, & Feist 2009).
children (Feist, & the importance of
Feist 2009). interpersonal relations for
psychological health has
received a moderate
amount of indirect support
(Feist, & Feist 2009).
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