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    Psychology Chapter 14 -- Personality Name: ____________________ In the space provided‚ write the name of the person or term identified by each description. Choose your answers from the list below. Some answers will not be used. 1-10=1@ 11-25=2@ 26-45=1@ 46-49=3@ 52-66=2@ 50 or 51 6pts |acculturation |reaction formation |congruence |displacement |anima-animus |Rogers | |defense mechanisms |repression |archetypes

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    is present in every Human being. But Karen Horney’s theory of neurosis focuses on free will that human Nature is flexible. Everyone has capacity for self growth and all can consciously shape their lives and can achieve self realization. She was optimistic and believes that humanity is relational and instinctual drives do not criticize persons to neurosis. The author chooses Horney’s theory of neurotic human Nature to employ in this thesis. According to Horney‚ Human Nature and each person is unique

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    Id, Ego, and Superago

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    Name: Kristoffer Asetre Subject: Theries of Personality PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY: Id‚ Ego‚ Superego Sigmund Freud Freud formulated a unique way of thinking about the mind‚ made up of three parts: Id‚ Ego‚ and Superego. These three structures describe the way we think and make decisions on a day-to-day basis. The id is the part of the mind that wants what it wants‚ and wants it now. It is demanding and childish‚ and operates via the pleasure principle. This simply means that it motivates

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    assessment paper on Detective Olivia Benson from the show Law and Order SVU. She has been one of the lead detectives on the show since the first episode aired in 1998. The two personality theories I chose to use to assess Olivia’s personality are Karen Horney’s Psychoanalytic Social Theory‚ and Harry Sullivan’s Interpersonal Theory. Horney’s theory was built on the assumption that social and cultural conditions‚ especially childhood experiences‚ are at the fore front for what is responsible for shaping

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    Marge Simpson on the Fox TV show The Simpsons. At only 10 years of age‚ Bart has already established himself in the community and in his family as a trouble-maker. He is the oldest child in his family with two younger sister‚ Maggie and Lisa. To Karen Horney‚ Bart’s experiences with his parents would greatly influence his future personality. Bart’s interactions with his father‚ Homer‚ provide a perfect situation for the analysis of a parents influence on personality development. Homer’s relationship

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    models and the work and theories of psychologists Karen Horney and Gordon Allport. The proposed paper will begin with a timeline of interest in the topic of human personality which begins as early as philosophers Aristotle and Plato and explores its evolution from a popular public philosophical discussion to an actual field in the study of psychology. Inspired by her disagreement with the ideas of women popularized by Sigmund Freud‚ Karen Horney specialized in the study of personality through

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    What is the meaning of Personality? Personality is defined as an individual’s unique and stable pattern of characteristics and behaviours. It is the essence or uniqueness of one’s behavior. No two persons are alike‚ even twins have different personalities. Personality comes from the two Latin words ‘per” and “sonare”‚ which means “to sound through.” The Romans in Greek and Latin drama referred to it as “persona” the theatrical masks worn by actors as they perform the role expected by viewers and

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    according to our textbook‚ women took up most of his practice so one would assume he would have relied on women more to report his findings. This lack of "importance" of women in Freud’s research clearly demonstrated the times in which he lived in. Karen Horney‚ unlike Freud‚ believed that women didn’t result from penis envy that it was instead the men that suffered from womb envy. Womb envy is described as the expressed jealousy over women’s ability to bear and nurse children. This theory along with

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    Sigmund Freud has investigated the Psychoanalytic Theory (1856-1939). This theory caused great inconvenience when delivered and accepted a systematic war because Freud revealed the importance and impact of human sexual impulses stressing that culture is built over their oppression.  The Psychology of Conflict is one of the basic principles in the Psychoanalytic theory which sees the function of the mind as the expression of conflicting powers. Some of these forces are conscious but the key is unconscious

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    influence the mental functioning of adults. His examination of the genetic and then the developmental aspects gave the psychoanalytic theory its characteristics. The Neo-Analytic theory usually includes such theorists as Carl Jung‚ Alfred Adler‚ Karen Horney‚ and Erik Erikson. Essentially this school of thought is an attempt to extend and modernize the theories of Freud. Neo-analytic thinkers acknowledge the role of the unconscious in influencing behavior‚ their focus of study is more on the conscious

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