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Title: Categorize the similarities and differences between the psychoanalytic, behavior Post by: colleen on Jun 5, 2012 Categorize the similarities and differences between the psychoanalytic, behavioral, and humanistic perspectives on personality.
Title: Re: Categorize the similarities and differences between the psychoanalytic, behavior Post by: ThePsychic on Jun 7, 2012 • Basic view of human nature (psychoanalytic: basically bad; behavioral: neutral/neither good nor bad; humanistic: basically good).
• Basic view of culture/society (psychoanalytic: basically good; behavioral: neutral/neither good nor bad; humanistic: basically bad/controlling and stifling). • Important factor in personality development (psychoanalytic: early experiences and unconscious motivational conflict; behavioral: experiences with external contingencies and modeling; humanistic: the self and opportunity to have congruency in personality). • Differing levels of research support (behavioral perspective has the firmest grounding of the three; many concerns about the falsifiability of key ideas with psychoanalytic and humanistic perspectives). |