PERSPECTIVE FREE STRUCTURES KEY CONCEPTS KEY METHODS VISION OF LEADING KEY KEY

WILL UTOPIA THEORIST STRENGTH WEAKNESSES

Psychoanalytic Y Id, Ego and Superego Psychosexual Free association/ Unconflicted Attention to Many ideas
stages, Oedipus dream analysis psychosexual Sigmund unconscious superseded by
complex, development, Freud influences, more
Defense mature importance modern research on
mechanisms socialization of ID of sexual the brain,
instincts drives even speculations often
in nonsexual unverified or
spheres unverifiable,
influenced by
sexist
assumptions of the
times
Neo- analytic / Ego UN Unconscious and Identity; Varies from free Mature self, Carl Jung Emphasis on Sometimes a
Conscious self, sociocultural association to adapted to Alfred Adler the self as hodgepodge of
Archetype social Self influences on situational and the many situations Karen Horney it struggles to ideas
self-esteem, life autobiographical, to Erik Erickson cope with from different
goals with an emphasis be faced emotions & traditions, difficult
on self-concept drives on to
the inside and test in rigorous
the manner
demands of
others on the
outside
Biological N Improvement Focuses on Tends to minimize
through medication tendencies human potential for
of the Ivan Pavlov and limits growth and change,
brain & gene RobertPlomin imposed by serious danger of
Evolution, Neuroscience, manipulation or Hans Eysenck biological misuse by
hormones and heritability studies selection; David Buss inheritance, politicians who
Genes, Instinct and
neurotransmitters understanding Daly can be oversimplify
Biological structures
how our biological combined with its findings
inheritance affects other
society approaches
Behaviorist N External Reinforcement, Experimental Conditioning & Can force a May dehumanize
regularities conditioning, analysis reinforcing B.F. Skinner more unique human
in rewards learning, of animal learning of individual J dollar scientific potentials thought
 extinction behaviors so N miller analysis of comparisons to
the person wants to learning rats and pigeons,
do experiences may ignore
what benefits that advances from
society shape cognitive & social
personality psychology
Cognitive SY  Constructs Perception, Decision tasks, Rational decisions Albert Captures active
 expectancies observation, attribution making through Bandura nature Often ignores
 cognitions human as experiments, understanding of human unconscious and
 schemas scientist/decision computer thought process thought and emotional aspects
maker simulation of uses modern of personality
personality knowledge
from
cognitive
psychology