Question

Henry Thomas Throckmorton was born at 2:06 this morning at Atherton Memorial Hospital. Henry weighed 8 pounds, 2 ounces, and is 22 inches long. He appears to be a healthy and normal human infant. What is the basic nature of human personality? What influences will shape little Henry’s personality? How will his parents influence the development of his personality? Imagine that you have asked these questions of three psychologists, one representing Freud and psychoanalytic psychology, the second representing Skinner and the radical behaviorists, and the third representing Carl Rogers, Abraham Maslow, and humanistic psychology. Please respond to the prompts. Please post your original discussion by Wednesday and reply to at least three of your classmates' original discussions over 3 - 5 different days of the week by Sunday, 11:55p. Please reply to my posting changing my name to your last name in the subject. When replying to your classmates’ original discussions please do not change the title in the subject including their last name. This is a question and answer forum. In order to see other responses to these questions, you must first post your answer

Answer 1

SIGMUND FREUD

According to Sigmund Freud personality develops during early childhood, childhood experiences shape child personality. Freud explained 4 stages of psychosexual theory.

PSYCHOSEXUAL STAGES	Age range	What will the child do at this stage?	Fixation
Oral	0-1 year old	Children drive pleasure from oral activities. Including sucking and tasting. They like to put things in their mouth	Chewing gum and the end of pencils, smoking, eating, kissing, oral sexual practice
Anal	2-3year old	Children being potty training	Anal retention obsessively organized, or excessively neat; Anal expulsive reckless, careless
Phallic	3-6year old	Boys are more attached to their mother, while girls are more attached to their father	Resultantly, redirects his sexual union upon mother
Latent	6 year old to puberty	Children spend more time and interact mostly with same-sex peer	None
Genital	Beyond puberty	Individual are attracted to opposite-sex peer	None

SKINNER

Skinner a behaviourist and to predict the personality of a child, skinner has to focus on overt and observable behaviour that is learned from the environment. And according to him human behaviour under stimulus control, the important variable which is responsible for learning behaviour are Reinforcement, Discriminative Stimulus, Contingencies of Reinforcement.

	POSITIVE (Applies Stimulus)	NEGATIVE (Remove Stimulus)
REINFORCEMENT (increases the frequency of desirable behaviour)	Positive Reinforcement Give Pleasure	Negative Reinforcement Remove Pain
PUNISHMENT Decreases the frequency of the desirable behaviour	Positive Punishment Give Pain	Negative Punishment Remove Pleasure

MASLOW

Through Maslow theory of a personality, Maslow tried to explain that human beings will attempt to achieve their highest personal potential or “self-actualization” after fulfilled other basic needs. According to him, the child will continuously motivate to fulfil their every need and try to make efforts to achieve Self-actualization need.