Question

Humanistic psychology is described in your book in very glowing terms--as "emphasizing human strengths and aspirations, conscious free will, and the fulfillment of our potential." Who could not like the sound of that? Why, then, isn't all psychology humanistic (or is it)? What do psychosexual theory, analytic psychology, trait theory, behaviorism, etc. have that can top this?—(300 word response)

Answer 1

In the above question, emphasizing human strengths and aspirations, conscious free will, and the fulfilment of our potential as well as psychosexual theory, analytic psychology, trait theory, behaviourism both can be related to humanistic psychology.

I take an example for describing both the aspect,

According to the theory of Charles Darwin nature give us a power for surviving and fighting with all the odds which are derived by the man in this nature. As we grow up we see our surrounding where we are raised, and this surrounding gives us a power for emphasizing our strength with this strength, strong one chooses the good aspiration which gives her/him confidence for surviving. So, after winning itself a belief in strength and aspirant the strong one automatically built their conscious free will because it is chosen by nature and raised by the good surrounding he/she believe in their own thought, whatever they want to do they will succeed in it. Will is the only thing by which person can achieve anything in this whole world. And obviously, one who is strong to believe in this own thoughts which means that he/she has some potential to conquer. So, it is like a chain process which depends on one another to generate humanistic psychology.

This chain work like this:

THINK------> BELIEVE------> CONQUER

The psychosexual theory can be described in five phases:

1. Oral Stage- It is the stage where the baby's erogenous zone is mouth they only drink milk from the bottle.

2. Anal Stage- This stage is from the 1-3 year where the erogenous zone is bowel and bladder control. They know how and where to go for toilet.

3. Phallic Stage- This stage falls on 3-6 years. Where the erogenous zone is genitals.

4. Latent Stage- Ths stage is from the age of 6 to puberty. Where they are very actively energized. They play basketball for 4-6 hours daily which shows their latent energy or hidden energy. And the last stage of psychosexual is the .

5. Genital stage- This stage last from puberty to death. Where the sexual interests are maturing.

Analytic Psychology:

This theory believes that once you built your consciousness you can unlock your power of logically thinking. The motive of analytic psychology is to explore the unconscious, personal and collective, and integrate the conscious and unconscious though a analytic psychology.

Trait Theory:

Trait theory is based on the personality which distinguishes individuals. This theory is focused on identifying and measuring individual personality characteristics. After that, they take a tag of this type of name like intelligent, honest, shy etc.

Behaviourism:

This psychology is based on the idea that what kind of behaviours are acquired through the different condition. For example, An old woman is crossing the road having some stuff she is not confident to cross the road. Two young boys are watching this, who is also waiting for the signal to be red to cross the road, as the signal goes red and boy X cross the road but the boy Y think to help that old woman and take her stuff and give her support to cross the road. This example shows the behaviour of two boys who through their own and the good boy with good thought behaves well.

In response to which is on top So, basically these theories are well suited for the condition they cannot be ranked.

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