Running head: Personality Theories Personality Theories PSY/211 Personality Theories The existence of personality theories correspond to how scholars analyze and assess the development of human identity and behavior. Each viewpoint provides a specific understanding of what cultivates personality and the corresponding factors that influence such behavior. One way to analyze personality is through the lens of psychoanalytic theory. The main argument of this theory is that problems or issues pertaining to psychology can be rooted to one’s unconscious (McLeod, 2007). Specifically, the problems are influenced by latent issues surfacing in the conscious mind.
I have practiced talking and really getting to know people so I don’t just assign them to a category. An adjustment I have made concerning overattribution is trying not to let sympathy take over how I perceive others behaviors. When talking to a person who has been though hardships in life I don’t let myself attribute their bad behavior or drug use to that. I instead think that it is their choice to behave in that way and it is their choice to ruin their life with drugs. And again with the only child scenario.
They deal with “the how” of motivation. How did a specific process lead to an outcome of motivation? This information is important because it can show how the process may be measured and then replicated. It provides a way to explain how to motivate for change. One theory of motivation Bill Bailey might use is the process theory known as the Expectancy Theory.
The ones who theorize the humanistic perspective focus mostly on methods that allow fulfillment of potential. Cognitive behavior is an extra method when comprehending the effects of learning on the initiation of behavior. A cognitive tactic to motivation stresses that the likelihood of an
Theory and techniques will be applied through the window of the case study of John, in an effort to demonstrate the effectiveness of this model in strengthening an individual’s internal sense of control, thereby changing behaviour. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is based around the notion of thoughts leading to how an individual feels and acts, discounting the external environment into a much less important role. A two-way relationship exists between thinking and behaviour, in that thinking can influence behaviour and behaviour can, in turn, influence thinking. The predominant assumption in CBT is that maladaptive behaviours arise not from a stimulus itself, but from the individual’s evaluation or thoughts and feelings about that stimulus. CBT uses a collaborative relationship between client and therapist in a goal oriented, systematic approach with both parties working together to achieve a solution, based on the
Having Fun With Operational Definitions Adapted from teachpsychscience.org Directions: Identify and operationally define the independent and dependent variables in each of the following research ideas. Research Idea #1: A social psychologist was interested in whether people are more likely to exhibit conformity when they are in situations that make them feel nervous and unsure of themselves. What is the independent variable? How would you define it operationally? What is the dependent variable?
The Psychodynamic Perspective The school of psychodynamics focuses on the interplay of the mental forces. It is said that humans have can have unconscious motives that underlie their true intentions. It is also said that the foundations of what was discovered rests on the evidence that people could be aware of their subconscious motivations while processing the things that affect their conscious thoughts that are related to their feelings, behaviors and intentions. Scientific studies show that psychodynamic perspective can reveal as to why a person’s actions are brought on by thoughts and feelings that would cause a reaction or a response in different situations. This school of study ultimately depends on the methods of the case studies that are performed to provide the necessary information that will clearly show them the evidence based on motivations.
The Belief component is what each of us as human beings chooses to believe or think about when it comes to the object of an attitude. The Emotional component is simply a person’s feelings that they have towards the specific object of an attitude. The Action component is how a person tends to act or behave when it comes to dealing with the main object of each attitude. All three of these components of attitudes being Belief, Emotional, as well as Action are affected through persuasion, conformity, and biases in different but yet also similar ways. Persuasion is known as an attempt that is deliberately made to change beliefs or attitudes through arguments and information.
As well as “describe the role of personality in affecting situational behavior and examine the personality quality associate with as well as describe the interpersonal relational aspects associated with the two of the theoretical approaches” of first the dispositional and second the learning. Dispositional Theories Basic Assumption Some of the basic
These big ideas can be categorized under social thinking, social influence, or social relations. The idea that we construct our social reality falls under social thinking, it describes the natural human urge to explain behavior, by attempting to attribute it to a cause, in order to make it seem orderly, predictable, and controllable (Myers, 2010). According to social psychology our social intuitions are powerful and sometimes perilous, suggesting that the human ability to understand something immediately, molds or influences behavior because it also shapes fears, attitudes, impressions, and relationships (Myers, 2010). It is also believed that social influences shape behavior as does behavior shape social influences. Myers (2010) provides an example as to how behavior is shaped by social influences making humans social creatures, “We speak and think in words we learned from others (Social psychology, p. 7).