Psychoanalytic, Humanistic, Social Cognitive, and Behavioral make up the four personality theories that help to define a person. Theorists thought of a personality more in terms of they way people behave and not so much in terms of traits. These four theories range on a scale from nature to nurture and all have a different concept on what affects people to do the actions they do and have the thoughts that they have.
The book quoted that the Psychoanalytic theory of personality focuses on the idea that our lives are governed by unconscious ideas and impulses that originate in childhood conflicts. (Rathus Textbook Page 8) I believe that this would mean if a child grew up in an abusive home, that he/she would most likely grow up to be more …show more content…
nurture continuum, I placed all the personality theories where I thought they should go based on what I learned in the chapters of our books. I started with placing Psychoanalysis the furthest to the left near the nature side. With the basis of the Psychoanalytic theory focusing on the idea that our lives are shaped by unconscious ideas and actions that happened to us in childhood. I used the word childhood as the keyword because that is beginning of it all for everyone. Nature is the known for being more about the mind and the unconscious and when we are children, we don't really have control of anything because we are not developed mentally yet, therefore, the most naturing …show more content…
((2015) Schizophrenia. Retrieved from www.psychologytoday.com/conditions/schizophrenia) None of these theories deal with peers or the environments but rather all the symptoms have to deal with the mind. This is why I put it on the Nature side of the continuum.
I defiantly think that people can be born with schizophrenia just by a mix up in the genes and neurons in their brain that causes them to have a different view on life that we would not consider to be normal. I also think that childhood upbringing can affect the start of schizophrenia due to the cultural factors of poverty, poor parenting, discrimination, and overcrowding. (Rathus Textbook, Page 300)
Schizophrenia being one of the most deadly mental illnesses that can affect the brain. Basing in my opinion that it falls in the personality theories of Psychoanalysis and Social Cognitive. With Schizophrenia having so many effects on a person through the brain, for this reason, I believe that is falling towards the Nature side of the nature vs nurture
The book quoted that the Psychoanalytic theory of personality focuses on the idea that our lives are governed by unconscious ideas and impulses that originate in childhood conflicts. (Rathus Textbook Page 8) I believe that this would mean if a child grew up in an abusive home, that he/she would most likely grow up to be more …show more content…
nurture continuum, I placed all the personality theories where I thought they should go based on what I learned in the chapters of our books. I started with placing Psychoanalysis the furthest to the left near the nature side. With the basis of the Psychoanalytic theory focusing on the idea that our lives are shaped by unconscious ideas and actions that happened to us in childhood. I used the word childhood as the keyword because that is beginning of it all for everyone. Nature is the known for being more about the mind and the unconscious and when we are children, we don't really have control of anything because we are not developed mentally yet, therefore, the most naturing …show more content…
((2015) Schizophrenia. Retrieved from www.psychologytoday.com/conditions/schizophrenia) None of these theories deal with peers or the environments but rather all the symptoms have to deal with the mind. This is why I put it on the Nature side of the continuum.
I defiantly think that people can be born with schizophrenia just by a mix up in the genes and neurons in their brain that causes them to have a different view on life that we would not consider to be normal. I also think that childhood upbringing can affect the start of schizophrenia due to the cultural factors of poverty, poor parenting, discrimination, and overcrowding. (Rathus Textbook, Page 300)
Schizophrenia being one of the most deadly mental illnesses that can affect the brain. Basing in my opinion that it falls in the personality theories of Psychoanalysis and Social Cognitive. With Schizophrenia having so many effects on a person through the brain, for this reason, I believe that is falling towards the Nature side of the nature vs nurture