Hello Class,
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| Lawrence Kohlberg |
Today you are about to share who your new favorite Personality Theorist is. I want you to go and research at least three from the list with from the Personality Theorist website that are not Freud. Remember Freud's Psychosexual Theory lacks the scientific backdrop to make it valid and as it was a very early theory there were surely more to come along with varied points and more science behind them.
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| Anna Freud |
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| Karen Horney |
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| Erik Erikson |
Directions:
1. Go to Personality Theorists and review at least three theorists besides Sigmund Freud.
Include the following information:
- Provide the name of the theory and a basic description of the core points
- What attracted you to this theory?
- What does it explain better than Freud and his Psychosexual Theory?
3. Look at those listed if your first favorite is there then make your initial post with your second choice. If your second favorite is there then go to your third favorite and make that theorist as your initial post.
4. If all three of your new favorite theorists are listed then choose the one with the fewest reply posts and interact with these prompts.
- Do you agree with the initial post author?
- What can you add to the initial post about this theorist?
- Why do YOU think this theorist makes more sense than Freud?
Mr. Campbell
Carl Jung´s theory is called Collective Unconscious and Archetypes. Carl believes the mind is divided into three parts. The ego, personal conscious and collective unconscious. Carl identifies the ego with the conscious mind, and the personal unconscious is closely related as being anything that is not currently conscious but can be, but he also believes the in something called the collective unconscious. This is a collection of all of the human knowledge from your ancestors that came before you. In fact he also calls it the Psychic Inheritance. I was attracted to this because I was always wondering about the feeling of deja vu people have when entering an old building for example. If one of your ancestors has been there you can feel that. It also explains more about feelings we don´t fully understand from Freud´s work such as the near death experience. Freud doesn´t talk about these types of feelings that I have read, and it is nice to have some perspective for them.
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ReplyDeleteI looked at Erik Erikson's theory and he looked at the Psychosocial Development point of view. That is studying how children develop there socializing skills and how it can affect them if they fail at that certain stage. He believed there were 8 stages to develop. If you fail at any of these stages he believes that you can go back and fix these at a later time. At Freud's point of view you wouldn't be able to go back and fix these problems. I was attracted to Erikson because he had the opposite point of view then Freud did and I wanted to learn more about him and his perspective.
Macie
Hi Macie,
DeleteI read your post on Erik Erikson, I found it to be interesting as a summary. I agree with the things you stated and with the theory. It does tend to contradict Freud in certain ways but otherwise it's a good theory. Something I might add is the "set time" for each phase that's mentioned on the original article. I think this theory and theorist makes more sense than Freud since it offers some more flexibility regarding developmental stages. It just seems more based on observing the mind in more than just one area, along with bodily desires.
Thanks for reading,
-Jen
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ReplyDeleteRollo May had a psychological theory called May's Existential Psychology Theory. This theory is similar to Freud's theory because it also has stages of development. The first stage is innocence. This is the pre-moral stage where the kid doesn't really know the difference of right and wrong, of good or bad. The second stage is Rebellion and it is when the child is developing an ego and/or self-conscious. The child wants freedom, but does not yet comprehend the consequences or reality of what that freedom means. Ordinary is the third stage is it is the normal adult ego. It finds responsibility demanding and finds comfort in conformity and tradition. Creative it the last stage of May's theory, and it is the adult ego when it can accept destiny and face the anxiety(fear) in the world.
I was attracted to this theory because it is more simple than Freud's theory and more straight forward. I enjoyed how this theory, while unlike Freud's psychosexual theory, focused more on the ego instead of the body like Freud's. May talked a lot more about the mind and what the mind is doing at the different stages, while Freud walked more about the body and sexual development. This is why I think it explains better than Freud's. A psychological theory should be more based on the ego, mind, and superego in my opinion. These factors are what drew me in, and what made me feel that they were better that Freud's psychosexual theory.
Pilot
Hi Pilot,
DeleteMy favorite of these theorists was also Rollo May.
I agree with you that his theory's simplicity makes it easier to understand. I also agree that his theory's focus on the development of the mind, rather than the body and sexual development of a person, made it seem more connected to a person's development of personality.
I would also mention that he wrote about how people need to create their own values individually throughout their life. This is connected to his personality theory, as somebody's values impacts their behavior, and by extension their personality. Another large part of May's theory is the three personality archetypes that he believes exist. The "neo-Puritan" who has an unstoppable will to succeed but no love in their life, the "infantile" who has unbelievable dreams that they will never achieve due to a lack of self-discipline, and the "creative" archetype, which is the balance between an iron will and a warm love. I agree with May that success and happiness in life is a result of the balance between working hard and having that will to succeed, but also having the capability to love and appreciate as much as possible in your life.
I believe this theorist makes more sense than Freud because large portions of Freud's theories never made much sense to me in the first place. May's focus on the development of the mind, going from being focused on surviving, to learning morality, developing values, and eventually becoming an adult that overcomes their anxiety through courage, rather than young children being obsessed with particular parts of the body such as the mouth or the anus, or being attracted to their parent of opposite sex, makes more sense to me.
~ Jack
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ReplyDeleteThe theorists Alfred Adler had a theory called ‘striving for perfection’. This has to do with most people striving to be perfect in everything they do. The article says the people trying to do this often end up living sad lives because of how hard they are trying. Adler says that striving for perfection is in the end harmful for people. I was drawn to this theory because I think that perfectionism is really interesting. I know a lot of people who have to have everything a certain way and it is interesting to see the impacts of that. This theory is kind of in relation to the second stage of Freud’s Stages of Psychosocial Development. In the anal stage if a child of the ages 18 months to 3 years become fixated on elimiting and retaining feces they could become obsesed with cleanliness, control and of couse be a perfectionist
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ReplyDeleteMy favorite theorist was Abraham Maslow and his theory was called the "hierarchy of needs". He believed that there were 4 human needs that all humans must have beyond the basic need for "air, water, food, and sex." These include: the physiological need, the safety and security need, the love and belonging need, and the esteem need. These needs go in this order, from most important to least important. I was drawn to this theory because I thought that it was interesting how most people think that we only have 4 basic needs to live, but there are actually 4 more deeper needs that humans must have, according to Maslow. I believe that this is explained better within Maslow's theory rather than Freud's theory because Freud doesn't ever talk about what the deeper human needs are and how they are important, but Maslow does.
Maddy
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ReplyDeleteThe theorist I chose to write about is Alfred Alder. Alder has a theory, "striving for perfection," is what it is called. People have someone, or more than one person, they look up to as the perfect being. In Alder's theory he points out people who strive for a perfect life often times than not turn out to be sad beings, struck of personality or themselves. This in relation to Freud's theory is the splitting of a human. By this I mean that Alder studied a person as a whole, not into different stages and components. I was drawn to this theory because throughout time you see and hear people talking about the perfect being, and it is interesting to me people think like that.
Jayden
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ReplyDeleteMy favorite theorist is B.F.Skinner. His theory of "operant conditioning" proposed the idea that “the behavior is followed by a consequence, and the nature of the consequence modifies the organisms tendency to repeat the behavior in the future.” This theory interested me due to all of the different variables that his theory depended on such as schedules of reinforcement, Continuous reinforcement, fixed ratio schedule, Aversive stimuli, and punishment. Skinner's theory has to do with children, similar to Freud's. They contrast in ways as Skinner felt that the reinforced operant behavior would only last temporarily without some intermittent reinforcement while Freud felt that the id, ego, and superego were all involved in the behavior of an individual.
Emma
Hello Emma,
DeleteI also looked at B.F. Skinner and his theory finding it very interesting his point of view. Understanding what he is saying about behavior is followed by consequences, agreeing with his theory that behavior can lead to consequences, seeing it more in children as they continue to grow into their bodies, with certain people feeling like they are kind of the superior person and can kind of do what they please, but needing to reinforce the behavior that could be happening!
Good blog post
Jamison
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ReplyDeleteI personally liked the theorist Alber Ellis the most. His theory was using Rational Emotive Behavioral Theory(REBT) to help people in therapy to get better or help them.
Albert used this technique he called ABCDE.A stands for Activating experiences, all being what cause you unhappiness. B stood Beliefs, he wanted to know your beliefs. Specifically, the irrational ones. C stands for Consequences. The consequences are what cause you to suffer from your unhappiness and irrational beliefs. D stood for Dispute. Specifically about all the irrational beliefs you have and the causes of your unhappiness. Lastly, E stands for Effects. Ellis used this form of therapy because the outcome of this therapy would be leave clients thinking more rationally and ultimately be happier at the end of the session. Albert was a man of many talents in the field of clinical psychology, his plan originally was not be be in that field. However, he found is passion in clinical psychology and wrote books and articles on the REBT technique and was perfomed the REBT technique on alot of people. In part of Alberts theory he did a lot of reseach and studying on how doing this technique focuses on turning your feeling of not being successful or good enough to showing them their success and worth. However, like Freuds theory the ego and super ego are important in how the therapy is done.
Thanks for reading,
Keeleigh
Hey Keeleigh,
DeleteI looked at Albert Ellis for research for my blog post this week. I enjoy how you go into depth of all of the components of Ellis' theory with what ABCDE stands for and how it applies to his thinking. You also add details of Ellis' biography which helps me get the full picture on why he thought the way he did when he was crafting his theory.
Great Job,
Emma
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ReplyDeleteMy favorite theorist is Otto Rank. His theory of "The Hero" proposing the idea of there is always someone with a higher standing, someone who is creative someone who is superior then from others with different experiences, making the concept a little bit more difficult, with an offspring being abandoned by parents and raised by a mammal of some kind, or when he goes into depth about artist tackling different kind of issues, such as strong tendencies to glorify of ones own will. The ego being embedded with power, but along coming the types with being self-conscious, obeying the law and etc. With his last connection being life or death, with people fear of life or fear of death. The separation happening at birth as it's earliest work with birth trauma to do with built up anxiety, recognizing the fears for people to embrace their own lives with life or death.
Honestly basing around just the individual and their experiences as time goes on, with parts with remembrance.
James
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ReplyDeleteThe theorist I most enjoyed researching was Viktor Frankl. This theory was Logotheropy, which essentially means a will to meaning. His whole theory was based off of having hope, as he had been taken into Auschwitz where many people lost hope. Viktor lost everything in the camp, but because he still had hope he survived. Viktor had written a total of 32 books in his lifetime, and was a very educated man. He believed that "meaning must be found and cannot be given," and he also believed in the existential vacuum which makes much more sense than Freud's theory. The existential vacuum means that humans feel the burning desire to fill any emptiness in their lives. There cannot be a moment spared that is not filled by a person, or an activity, or something similar. He believed that everything lead back to emotion, hope, love, and feeling. I also believe that emotion dictates most of a persons life, and how they feel about others in their life can change and dictate one's entire world.
I think basing life off of hope is how everyone makes it through.
Thank you for reading,
Morgan