Psychology - Compare/Contrast Theory - 1200-1600 word total, paragraph format ap

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Psychology - Compare/Contrast Theory - 1200-1600 word total, paragraph format appreciated

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Answer the following in 300-400 words for each element (4 total).

1) Identify and compare key elements of Freudian theory with ONE OF THE FOLLOWING theorists or theories: Jung, Adler, Horney, Object Relations, Erikson.

2) Highlight areas of agreement/disagreement between the theories chosen.

3) What “improvement” on Freudian personality theory was the theorist you chose trying to achieve?

4) Assess your theorist’s success in achieving this improvement.

(Notes: Sources must be recent, i.e., published within the past 10 years. While searching for the key elements on each of the theorists mentioned, refer to the fundamentals of the theories you are comparing.)

Explanation / Answer

1- JUNG: Carl jung was a swiss psychiatrist who later split off from Freud and developed his own theory which he called analytical psychology.He also proposed extraversion and intraversion.

ALDER: He was the first major theorist to break away from freud.He subsequently founded a school of psychology called individual psychology which focuses on our drive to compensate for feelings of inferiority.

HORNEY: Karen horney was one of the 1st women trained as a freudain psycoanalyst.Her theory focused on role of unconcious anxiety.

ERIKSON: He proposed a psychological theory of development suggesting that an individual personality develops throughout the life span.

2. The neofreudians were psychologists whose work followed from freuds.They generally agreed with freud that childhood experiences matter but they decreased the emphasis on sex and focused more on social environment and effects of culture on personality.

3. According to freuds theory,concious experience is only small part of our psychlogical makeup and experience.He argued in such a way that behaviour is motivated by the unconcious,a part of personality that contains the memory, knowledge, beliefs, feelings, urges, drives and instincts of which the individual is not aware.

4. Essentially reflective practice is a method of assesing our own thoughts and actions for the purpose of personal learning and development.

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