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    PERSONALITY THEORY

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    Chapter 10 Maslow: Holistic-Dynamic Theory Learning Objectives After reading Chapter 10‚ you should be able to: 1. List and explain Maslow’s five assumptions regarding motivation. 2. List and explain the five needs in Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. 3. Distinguish between conative‚ aesthetic‚ cognitive‚ and neurotic needs. 4. Define instinctoid needs. 5. Describe Maslow’s criteria for identifying self-actualizers. 6. List and describe the characteristics of self-actualizing

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    Post-colonialial theory as a recent field of study has lately become one of the most attractive academic disciplines - if it can be called a discipline - that incessantly triggers piles and piles of literature written by art of critics‚ social reformists‚ political scientists‚ literary critics and political economists. The continuous expansion of post-colonialism in its recent version made its own domains of interest and areas of functionality overlap with other fields of global academic studies

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    The Evolution of Leadership Theory David A. Van Seters Stevenson‚ Kellogg‚ Ernst & Whinney‚ Vancouver‚ British Columbia and Evolution of Leadership Theory 29 Richard H.G. Field University of Alberta‚ Edmonton‚ Canada Leadership is one of the most complex and multifaceted phenomena to which organisational and psychological research has been applied. While the term "leader" was noted as early as the 1300s (The Oxford English Dictionary‚ 1933) and conceptualised even before biblical times

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    In this essay I aim to describe two theories (Equity Theory and Social exchange theory) of relationships and to consider how they might influence the therapist engaged in couples counseling‚ noting their similarities and differences. Equity theory is a theory about fairness. Its application to close relationships has been primarily advanced by Elaine Hatfield (previously known as Elaine Walster) and her colleagues in the book Equity: Theory and Research (Walster‚ Walster‚ and Berscheid 1978). The

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    Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity by Judith Butler Review by: Mary McIntosh Feminist Review‚ No. 38 (Summer‚ 1991)‚ pp. 113-114 Published by: Palgrave Macmillan Journals Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1395391 . Accessed: 20/03/2012 23:44 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use‚ available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars‚ researchers

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    Gestalt Theory

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    restored Paradoxical theory of change- suggest that real changes can be made when we are being true to rather then we are trying to be who we are not. Gestalt promotes clients growth rather than the client relying on the therapist to direct change Yellow hat Gestalt encourages clients to change parts of their personality that the client does not like‚ the change is decided by the client it’s a way the client thinks they can better them selves Following paradoxical theory of change it shows how

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    Theories of Personality

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    temperament -- a person’s characteristic emotional state‚ first apparent in early infancy and possibly inborn.   A. Hippocrates’ view -- According to Hippocrates‚ temperament is determined by a person’s level of 4 different body fluids‚ called humors. 1) Blood was associated with a cheerful‚ or sanguine temperament. 2) Phlegm assoc. with a calm‚ or phlegmatic temperament. 3) Black bile was associated with a depressed‚ or melancholic temperament. 4) Yellow bile was assoc. w/ an irritable‚ or choleric temperament

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    Theory Analysis

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    Theory Analysis Sigmund Freud - Psychosexual Theory · Basic Philosophy - The basic philosophy is that the sex instinct is the most factor influencing personality; sexual instinct is present at birth‚ but it occurs in stages. The sex instinct provides the driving force for thought and activity. If conflicts from these stages are not resolved fixations may occur. If overindulgence at a stage may result in a person remaining at that stage. Certain personality traits develop from difficulty in

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    Maslow Concept of human needs Difference people got difference need ‚we have to know that the worker in which level in the hierarchy so that we can give what he want to motivate them .It is based on what the workers need. what he want ? we just give it as motivator Hierarchy factors need For maslow ‚there have a hierarchy with 5 lvl .a people will satisfied the level one by one according this hierarchy. the people will satisfied with the lower level and jump to the higher level until they reach

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    Philogiston Theory

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    Phlogiston Theory According to the phlogiston theory‚ propounded in the 17th century‚ every combustible substance consisted of a hypothetical principle of fire known as phlogiston‚ which was liberated through burning‚ and a residue. The word phlogiston was first used early in the 18th century by the German chemist Georg Ernst Stahl. Stahl declared that the rusting of iron was also a form of burning in which phlogiston was freed and the metal reduced to an ash or calx. The theory was superseded

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