contrasting two out of the eight personality theories commonly used to decipher one’s personality. Those two are the psychoanalytic perspective and the existential/humanistic perspective. Both perspectives are equally important as they play a major role in understanding personality in different ways and explaining them as well. Freud’s psychoanalysis helps us to understand the individual’s personality from its early years right up to adulthood while existential and humanistic theorists postulate the interpretation
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Humanistic Perspective The focus of the humanistic perspective is on the self‚ which translates into "YOU"‚ and "your" perception of "your" experiences. This veiw argues that you are free to choose your own behavior‚ rather than reacting to environmental stimuli and reinforcers. Issues dealing with self-esteem‚ self-fulfillment‚ and needs are paramount. The major focus is to facilitate personal development. Two major theorists associated with this view are Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow.
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Theory of Choice Article Selection: Humanistic Approach to Education Markeeta R. Summers Capella University June 4‚ 2011 Rationale 1. We all have the power to choose our destinies 2. client centered therapy 3. The approach attempts to help people gain control of their lives and make positive choices about their direction Humanistic psychologists are different from psychodynamic theorists because they indicate that our lives are not completely determined by genetics‚ past experiences
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I. INTRODUCTION The emergence of humanistic learning theory can not be separated from the movement of humanistic education that focuses on affective outcomes‚ learning about how to learn and learning to enhance creativity and human potential. This humanistic approach emerged as a form of disapproval on two previous views‚ the views of psychoanalysis and behavioristik in explaining human behavior. Disagreement is based on the assumption that the views of psychoanalysis too pessimistic outlook bleak
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Humanistic Theories of Learning: I. Introduction Humanism‚ a paradigm that emerged in the 1960s‚ focuses on the human freedom‚ dignity‚ and potential. A central assumption of humanism is that people act with intentionality and values. Humanism would concentrate upon the development of the child ’s self-concept. If the child feels good about him or herself then that is a positive start. Feeling good about oneself would involve an understanding of ones ’ strengths and weaknesses‚ and a
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Running head: BIOLOGICAL AND HUMANISTIC APPROACHES TO PERSONALITY Mileva Repasky PSYC 250 Jean M. Porter University of Phoenix Personality can be defined as “the complex of all the attributes-behavioral‚ temperamental‚ emotional and mental-that characterizes a unique individual.” (Princeton University‚ n.d.) Personality has been studied and explained for a long time and is linked directly to Maslow’s humanistic and biological theories. This paper seeks to describe the biological
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Humanistic Theory and Trait Theory My research was comparing the Humanistic Theory and Trait Theory. Humanistic Theory is based on the ability for individuals to be able to uniquely diverse with our own prospective on life. It evaluates how an individual’s choice can affect their decision making and how the decisions can take a positive or negative effect to the conclusion of that choice. It also focuses on how we allow others to manipulate us into believing what our self worth is‚ if we are capable
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Biological and Humanistic Approaches to Personality A person biological and Humanistic traits can be considered some element of an individual Individuum and assessing the personality of that individual. The sympathetic knowledge of the human mind and the human psychological makeup‚ what makes a person tick‚ have greatly improved over the years. With the need to examine to an extent how the human growth influence personality from childhood to adulthood. While biological and humanistic varies from person
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These two theories have created debates between psychologists for many years. Hans j. Eysenck‚ Ph.D.‚ D.Sc.‚ is one of the world ’s most cited psychologists. He is a professor at the Institute of Psychiatry of the University of London‚ where he started the discipline of clinical psychology in Great Britain. He is a pioneer in the use of behavior therapy as well as research in personality theory and measurements. The biological theory has to do with his findings that individual differences in personality
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weaknesses of biological and humanistic theories? With which do you agree more? The biological and humanistic theories both have strengths and weaknesses. Focusing on nature versus nurture‚ the biological theory suggests that all behavior stems from genetics and is not a product of our surroundings or environment. Thus‚ it ignores individual effects and differences people experience such as how our bodies react to different stimuli like stress and anxiety. The humanistic theory focuses on the individual
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