Marianist Values
Chaminade University
Abstract
This paper is going to demonstrate the ten core fundamentals of Psychology and how it’s incorporated with the Marianist values. This university bases their work and morals around the Marianist values, and enforces it. Marianists are Catholic members of the Society of Mary, and this society was founded by none other than William Joseph Chaminade. The ten fundamentals that will be explained are Psychology of : Behavioral Research, Personality, Organizational, Counseling, Social, Life Span Development, Abnormal, Evolutionary, Statistics, and the Basic Fundamentals. The five Marianist values are: Educate for formation …show more content…
In order to provide a good education, and expect students to receive the information well, a professor must have an attitude that shows that they care. Professors are seen as a leader in some students’ eyes, because leaders teach, correct, encourage, and take care of their own with a cheerful attitude. A leader that shows that they don’t care about those under them will not be received well and the students will become nonchalant in their studies. The definition of attitude is, “evaluative statements either favorable or unfavorable about objects, people, or events. They reflect how we feel about something”(Robbins pg 7). In Organizational Psychology, it speaks on how Psychology works in a professional setting such as school or work. The attitude portrayed by a person feeds off onto others attitude in almost all cases. The book also goes on to say, “ In organizations, attitudes are important for their behavioral component” (Robbins pg 73). In the book, the definition of behavioral component means, “ an intention to behave in a certain way towards someone or something” (Robbins pg 73). This book also suggested that attitude “follows” behavior. If attitude follows behavior, then that means a person’s intentions in a school environment better be good, or else you will act upon what you feel; therefore, you will be perceived as a teacher with a bad attitude. Another part to providing excellent education is to be able to help develop them as a whole person; in other words, develop their “self”. In Psychology of Personality, you learn about “self” a lot, and what it entails. According to the book it says, “The central aspect of self, however, is surely our psychological self: our abilities and especially our personalities. Your self-image, and your need to maintain, may influence your behavior” ( Funder pg 661). In other words how people perceive themselves play a huge