Running head: Human Personality Theories
Human Personality Theories
(Thursday 7th November)
Summary
Name
Institution
Course
Tutor
Date
, Human Personality Theories 2
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
Human Personality Theories
(Thursday 7th November)
Summary
Name
Institution
Course
Tutor
Date
, Human Personality Theories 2
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
