Summary Human personality Theories

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Human Personality Theories
(Thursday 7th November)
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Human Personality Theories: (Thursday 7th November)


Alfred Adler – disagreed with Freud’s conflict-based view of
humanity
- Emphasised importance of social world in personality
development
- E.g. social relationships motivation

-  + birth order and inferiority complexes


Karen Horney – rejects Freud’s sexual theory and gender-based
motivations
- Social/cultural influences on personality

- E.g. fear of failure

- Personality fully developed in creation of real self


Carl Jung – disagreed with Freud’s psychosexual theories
- Personality keeps on developing throughout life influenced by
future goals to achieve potential
- Psyche model of personality = opposites balance to motivate
behaviour
- Personal and collective unconscious, personality depends on
how one sees the world and reacts to it