Theories on Personality Development
Alice Walters 10/04/2011 Dr. Ollerman
Theory of Personality The world is made up of billions of people who have billions of different personalities to go with them. Our personality traits come in opposites. We think of ourselves as optimistic or pessimistic, independent or dependent, emotional or unemotional, adventurous or cautious, leader or follower, aggressive or passive. Many of these are inborn temperament traits, but other characteristics, such as feeling either competent or inferior, appear to be learned, based on the challenges and support we receive in growing up. I’m going to discuss a brief description of my theory on personalities. My ideas for personality development are primarily driven by learned behavior. I believe that personality mainly derives from the kind of environment that had (what kind of home/atmosphere did they grow up in and who they were surrounded by), child hood (parental involvement, social skills with other children, and relationships with other family members/friends), upbringing and characteristics that were embedded into the memory (how you were raised, i.e. by church oriented family, alcoholics, drug abusers, single mom/dad, etc) and personal development over the years as you age into adulthood and so on (could have had horrible childhood, but grew up making decisions to be a better person with standards or a bad person with no morals). I agree with many theories of personalities from Freud, Jung, Horney, Erikson, and a few others. I will go into details about the things I agree with from these past theorists.
The first theorist I agree with is Defense Mechanisms from Sigmund Freud. All defense mechanisms begin with repression of unacceptable impulses, that is, forcing them to be unconscious, but repression ties up energy, almost draining it. Defense mechanisms range from primitive ones, first developed in infancy, to more mature ones, developed later on in life. I also agree with his theory
Theory of Personality The world is made up of billions of people who have billions of different personalities to go with them. Our personality traits come in opposites. We think of ourselves as optimistic or pessimistic, independent or dependent, emotional or unemotional, adventurous or cautious, leader or follower, aggressive or passive. Many of these are inborn temperament traits, but other characteristics, such as feeling either competent or inferior, appear to be learned, based on the challenges and support we receive in growing up. I’m going to discuss a brief description of my theory on personalities. My ideas for personality development are primarily driven by learned behavior. I believe that personality mainly derives from the kind of environment that had (what kind of home/atmosphere did they grow up in and who they were surrounded by), child hood (parental involvement, social skills with other children, and relationships with other family members/friends), upbringing and characteristics that were embedded into the memory (how you were raised, i.e. by church oriented family, alcoholics, drug abusers, single mom/dad, etc) and personal development over the years as you age into adulthood and so on (could have had horrible childhood, but grew up making decisions to be a better person with standards or a bad person with no morals). I agree with many theories of personalities from Freud, Jung, Horney, Erikson, and a few others. I will go into details about the things I agree with from these past theorists.
The first theorist I agree with is Defense Mechanisms from Sigmund Freud. All defense mechanisms begin with repression of unacceptable impulses, that is, forcing them to be unconscious, but repression ties up energy, almost draining it. Defense mechanisms range from primitive ones, first developed in infancy, to more mature ones, developed later on in life. I also agree with his theory