Exam 2: Personality of Psychology
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Discuss Horney's concepts of basic hostility and basic anxiety. - ✔✔Hostility is created
when parents don't satisfy children's needs for safety and satisfaction, anxiety is created
when they have hostility but repress it so they don't feel bad.
All children need feelings of safety and security, but these can be gained only by love
from parents. Unfortunately, parents often neglect, dominate, reject, or overindulge
their children, conditions that lead to the child's feelings of basic hostility toward
parents. If children repress feelings of basic hostility, they will develop feelings of
insecurity and a pervasive sense of apprehension called basic anxiety.
Karen Horney's Biography - ✔✔Karen Horney, who was born in Eilbek (Hamburg,
Germany) in September 15th, 1885. She was the only daughter of Berndt Danielson and
Clothida van Ronzelem Danielsen (18 years younger than dad). She had one older
brother (4 years older) and four half brothers from dad's previous marriage. She was
hostile towards dad for being religious hypocrite, but loved mom. She was one of the
first women in that country admitted to medical school. There, she became acquainted
with Freudian theory and eventually became a psychoanalyst and a psychiatrist. In her
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,mid-40s, Horney left Germany to settle in the United States, first in Chicago and then in
New York. She soon abandoned orthodox psychoanalysis in favor of a more socially
oriented theory-one that had a more positive view of feminine development. She died
in 1952 at age 67.
Basic Anxiety - ✔✔It is created when children have hostility but repress it so they don't
feel badly - a feeling of being small, insignificant, helpless, deserted. If children repress
feelings of basic hostility, they will develop feelings of insecurity and a pervasive sense
of apprehension called basic anxiety.
Basic Hostility - ✔✔It is created when parents do not satisfy children's needs for safety
and satisfaction
People can protect themselves from basic anxiety through a number of protective
devices. What defense strategies does basic anxiety deal with? - ✔✔(1) affection, (2)
submissiveness, (3) power, prestige, or possession, and (4) withdrawal. Normal people
have the flexibility to use any or all of these approaches, but neurotics are compelled to
rely rigidly on only one.
What was Horney's theory overview? - ✔✔Horney's work was very relational - how we
relate to others influences our personality development (and further relations). Society
is relatively evil in her theory - it demands success and achievement that are impossible
to achieve, making us feel unworthy. Difficulties in childhood are responsible for
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, neurotic (anxious) behaviors. Her theory assumes that social and cultural conditions,
especially during childhood, have a powerful effect on later personality.
List and discuss Horney's categories of neurotic needs. - ✔✔Horney identified 10
categories of neurotic needs that mark neurotics in their attempt to reduce basic anxiety.
These include needs (1) for affection and approval, (2) for a powerful partner (3) to
restrict one's life within narrow borders, (4) for power, (5) to exploit others, (6) for social
recognition or prestige, (7) for personal admiration, (8) for ambition and personal
achievement, (9) for self-sufficiency and independence, and (10) for perfection and
unassailability.
Neurotic needs stem from childhood experiences and may become part of the
personality. Investigate the neurotic needs and see which, if any, dominate your
personality
Describe Horney's three neurotic trends. - ✔✔The three neurotic tends are (1) moving
toward people, in which compliant people protect themselves against feelings of
helplessness by attaching themselves to other people (helplessness); (2) moving against
people, in which aggressive people protect themselves against perceived hostility of
others by exploiting others (hostile); and (3) moving away from people, in which
detached people protect themselves against feelings of isolation by appearing arrogant
and aloof (isolation).
Idealized self-image - ✔✔solve conflicts by creating an idealized image of self
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Discuss Horney's concepts of basic hostility and basic anxiety. - ✔✔Hostility is created
when parents don't satisfy children's needs for safety and satisfaction, anxiety is created
when they have hostility but repress it so they don't feel bad.
All children need feelings of safety and security, but these can be gained only by love
from parents. Unfortunately, parents often neglect, dominate, reject, or overindulge
their children, conditions that lead to the child's feelings of basic hostility toward
parents. If children repress feelings of basic hostility, they will develop feelings of
insecurity and a pervasive sense of apprehension called basic anxiety.
Karen Horney's Biography - ✔✔Karen Horney, who was born in Eilbek (Hamburg,
Germany) in September 15th, 1885. She was the only daughter of Berndt Danielson and
Clothida van Ronzelem Danielsen (18 years younger than dad). She had one older
brother (4 years older) and four half brothers from dad's previous marriage. She was
hostile towards dad for being religious hypocrite, but loved mom. She was one of the
first women in that country admitted to medical school. There, she became acquainted
with Freudian theory and eventually became a psychoanalyst and a psychiatrist. In her
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,mid-40s, Horney left Germany to settle in the United States, first in Chicago and then in
New York. She soon abandoned orthodox psychoanalysis in favor of a more socially
oriented theory-one that had a more positive view of feminine development. She died
in 1952 at age 67.
Basic Anxiety - ✔✔It is created when children have hostility but repress it so they don't
feel badly - a feeling of being small, insignificant, helpless, deserted. If children repress
feelings of basic hostility, they will develop feelings of insecurity and a pervasive sense
of apprehension called basic anxiety.
Basic Hostility - ✔✔It is created when parents do not satisfy children's needs for safety
and satisfaction
People can protect themselves from basic anxiety through a number of protective
devices. What defense strategies does basic anxiety deal with? - ✔✔(1) affection, (2)
submissiveness, (3) power, prestige, or possession, and (4) withdrawal. Normal people
have the flexibility to use any or all of these approaches, but neurotics are compelled to
rely rigidly on only one.
What was Horney's theory overview? - ✔✔Horney's work was very relational - how we
relate to others influences our personality development (and further relations). Society
is relatively evil in her theory - it demands success and achievement that are impossible
to achieve, making us feel unworthy. Difficulties in childhood are responsible for
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, neurotic (anxious) behaviors. Her theory assumes that social and cultural conditions,
especially during childhood, have a powerful effect on later personality.
List and discuss Horney's categories of neurotic needs. - ✔✔Horney identified 10
categories of neurotic needs that mark neurotics in their attempt to reduce basic anxiety.
These include needs (1) for affection and approval, (2) for a powerful partner (3) to
restrict one's life within narrow borders, (4) for power, (5) to exploit others, (6) for social
recognition or prestige, (7) for personal admiration, (8) for ambition and personal
achievement, (9) for self-sufficiency and independence, and (10) for perfection and
unassailability.
Neurotic needs stem from childhood experiences and may become part of the
personality. Investigate the neurotic needs and see which, if any, dominate your
personality
Describe Horney's three neurotic trends. - ✔✔The three neurotic tends are (1) moving
toward people, in which compliant people protect themselves against feelings of
helplessness by attaching themselves to other people (helplessness); (2) moving against
people, in which aggressive people protect themselves against perceived hostility of
others by exploiting others (hostile); and (3) moving away from people, in which
detached people protect themselves against feelings of isolation by appearing arrogant
and aloof (isolation).
Idealized self-image - ✔✔solve conflicts by creating an idealized image of self
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