Psychology

Axial College Material Appendix D TV Character Evaluation Part I Write a summary of 350-700 words identifying the contributions of Freud, Jung, and Rogers. Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, and Carl Rogers all brought significant theories and thoughts to the perception of Psychology. At the time when many Psychologists were focusing on consciousness Freud based his beliefs on unconsciousness which are all the thoughts, ideas, and feelings of which we are not normally aware of. Freud’s ideas form the basis of psychoanalysis, a term that refers to both his theory of personality and to the form of therapy that he invented. Freud believed that human behavior is based on three kinds of instincts or drives some of which are aggressive, others are essential to our survival but the main human behavior is pleasure. Carl Chung believes represented all of life’s forces, not just the sexual ones. Chung saw that unconsouse as the ego' source of strength and vatality.He also believed that the unconscious consists of the personal unconscious and the collective unconscious. Collective unconsousness, personas, animas, extroverts and introverts are some of the characteristics that Chung based our minds on when it comes to human behavior. Such as a rational individual will base their actions upon their thoughts and feelings as oppose to irrational individuals who base their actions on perceptions, whether through the senses (sensation) or through unconscious processes (intuition). Carl Rogers came to the conclusion that men and women developed their personalities in the service of positive goals. Rogers believe that every organism is born with certain tendencies in which to be successful and one thing or another as a sort of genetic blueprint. For example if you have a self actualizing tendency or if you think of yourself as athletic or intelligent you will live up to those self images. Self directing people would be called a fully functioning person. Unconditional and conditions positive regard refer to those individuals who get treated with acceptance, warmth, and love as a child will be more successful as oppose to those children who are only valued and accepted for only certain aspects of that child. All three men are greatly appreciated for all of the thoughts and theories that they have contributed to Psychology. It really helps the understanding of the term Psychology and all of the different human behaviors. Although, they all have a someone different concept of the reasoning of human behavior it all comes together to make sense of such a difficult and complicated subject. Part II Choose three of your favorite television characters; past or present. Complete the following matrix describing the characters’ personalities from the point of view of the three theorists, Jung, Freud, and Rogers. |TV Character |Jung |Rogers |Freud | |1.Lady Gaga |Jung would feel as if Gaga were |In a recent documentary about |Freud believed that that the most | | |putting on a persona in which |Lady Gaga she stated that she |critical factor was pleasure | | |she wears all of these strange |had been singing and performing |therefore he would believe that | | |outfits but in reality she does |since she was little. This is a |Gaga is very comfortable with her | | |not. Therefore she is just |form of a self- concept that she|sexuality that she can perform and| | |making it seem as if this is how|had always wanted to be a singer|be very comfortable in her | | |she is all of the time but in |and entertainer. |unusually outfits and | | |reality she is different. | |environments. | |2.Stewie Griffin from The Family|Jung would believe that Stewie |Actualizing tendency is what |Freud would believe that Stewie is| |Guy |has mythical representations |Rogers would agree when it comes|aggressive and because he wants | | |because of his images of himself|to Stewie. He is so deprived in |imagines himself taking over the | | |taking over the world. |his own thoughts of attempting |world and consistently fanaticizes| | | |to rule the world that in every |about it but his ego sets in | | | |episode he is conducting some |reminding him that he is just a | | | |form of attempts to do so. |child and it would take a lot more| | | | |than a child to rule the world. | |3.The Joker from The Dark Night |Jung would agree that Joker was |Rogers would agree that based on|Freud would agree that the desire | | |an irrational individual because|the Jokers corrupt childhood is |of pleasure was the main | | |he based his actions on |the reason that he acts out so |determination. Joker enjoyed | | |perceptions rather than by |aggressively now. |taking from people and that is | | |thinking or feeling. | |what pleased him as being | | | | |aggressive and destructive. |