Documente Academic
Documente Profesional
Documente Cultură
Jung
Stressed people’s rational & spiritual
qualities
Development only comes to fruition
during middle adulthood
Neo-Freudian: Alfred Adler - Superiority
Adler
We can control our own fate
View of individual: striving for
perfection; develops socially
constructive goals
Karen Horney - Security
Believed that personality could continue to develop
and change throughout life
Believed that many of women’s psychological
difficulties arise from failure to live up to an
idealized version of themselves
To be psychologically healthy, women, she claimed,
(and men for that matter) must learn to overcome
irrational beliefs about the need for perfection
Penis Envy was really Power Envy which was a result
of social status rather than biology
Horney’s 3 Neurotic Trends:
Horney
Personality is shaped by environmental &
social factors
Nonsexual factors play a larger role in
personality development
How does a psychoanalyst access the
unconscious?
Freud liked hypnosis & free association
Jung analysed dreams
A more modern method would be to utilize Projective
Tests
An ambiguous stimulus is presented and the patient is asked to
describe it or present the story behind it
Examples of these tests include:
the Rorschach inkblot test
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
Rorschach Ink
blot test
Rorschach Inkblot Test
Contains 10 or so symmetric inkblots in
which the examiner then goes through the
cards and asks the test taker to clarify
their responses by identifying the various
parts of the inkblot that led to the
response
Assumes the test taker’s responses are
projections of their personal conflicts and
personality dynamics
Widely used but not demonstrated to be
reliable and valid
Thematic
Apperception
Test
TAT
Truly self-actualized
people are hard to find.
Self-Actualization
Characteristics of self-actualized people include
Accepting themselves, others, and the nature of world for
what they are
Having a need for privacy and only a few close,
emotional relationships
Being autonomous and
independent, democratic,
and very creative
Having peak experiences,
which are experiences of deep
insight in which you experience
whatever you are doing as fully as possible
Criticisms of the Humanist Theories
Naïve
Assumptions—humanists are unrealistic,
romantic, and naïve about human nature
Poortestability and inadequate evidence—
unconditional positive regard and self-actualization
are difficult to operationalize and test
Narrowness—humanistic theories merely describe,
rather than explain personality
A Note to Consider about Humanism
What is a TRAIT?
A trait is a characteristic pattern of behavior or a
disposition to feel and act
Everyone has a combination of traits
Allport vs. Freud
Temperaments do
seem to be stable
from infants to old
age.
Personality Assessment
Personality
Inventories
Projective
Tests
Personality Inventories
Are designed to measure multiple traits of personality, and
in some cases, disorders (psycopathology)
Area series of questions or statements for which the test taker
must indicate whether they apply to them or not
Connects to
Depression: people
feel they are falling
short of their hopes
Anxiety:people feel
they are falling
short of what they
ought to be
Effect of Low Self-Esteem:
Individualism: giving
priority to one’s own
goals over group
goals, and defining
one’s identity in terms
of personal attributes
rather than group
identifications.
Collectivism: giving
priority to the goals
of one’s group
(often one’s
extended family or
work groups) and
defining one’s
identity accordingly.
Value Contrasts Between
Individualism and Collectivism
Concept Individualism Collectivism
Self Independent Interdependent
(identity from (identity from
individual traits) belonging)
Life task Discover & express Maintain connections,
uniqueness fit in
What matters Me – personal Us – group goals and
achievement and solidarity; social
fulfillment; rights and responsibilities and
liberties; self-esteem relationships
Coping method Change reality Accommodate to
reality