PSY-P 102 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Penis Envy, Oedipus Complex, Karen Horney
21 Feb 2017
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Goal of personality theories they"re an attempt to describe and explain how people are similar, how they are different, and why every individual is unique; tries to explain the whole person. No single theory can explain all aspects of human personality. Psychoanalytic perspective: emphasized the importance of unconscious processes and the influence of early childhood experience: freud, jung, horney, adler. Humanistic perspective: represents an optimistic look at human nature, emphasizing the self and the fulfillment of a person"s unique potential: maslow, rogers. Social cognitive perspective: emphasizes learning and conscious cognitive processes, including the importance of beliefs about the self, goal setting, and self-regulation: bandura. Trait perspective: emphasizes the description and measurement of specific personality differences among individuals. 1 of 7 children; self proclaimed as mother"s favorite; said that being the mother"s favorite gives one the feeling of being a conqueror, that feeling of confidence and success induces real success.
