The Diver

Throughout this semester of Psychology 150 I have learned a great deal about several different concepts that I consciously, and sometimes unconsciously, find myself applying to my life. There are five different psychology topics I found that held the most relevance to my life. Some of these topics do not deal with myself exclusively, but they do affect the people I hold dear to me. The topics range from disorders to personality differences, and they all affect me in some way, both indirectly and directly.

The current paper will explore the history and future of personality in social psychology, and how the integration of these fields show more similarities than differences.

The personality theory that I have chosen to focus on will be Identity Theory. It was developed by Erik Erikson in the nineteen hundreds. Erik Erikson believed that every individual goes through a certain number of stages to reach his or her full development or potential (Erikson, 1994). He theorized that a human being goes through eight different stages ranging from birth to death (Erikson, 1994). Identity Theory focuses on eight psychosocial stages of development, and an epigenetic principle of maturation (Schultz, 2008). The stages of development are

Psychology is one of the newest sciences. Because it is the science of the mind and behavior, it is also less concrete than some of the other sciences. Over the years, social scientists have developed theories or perspectives based off of their observations, research, and the perspectives of other scientists. Although there is some overlap, each of the major perspectives of psychology is unique. As a result, they each have strengths and weaknesses and explain psychology in a different way. One theory, the sociocultural perspective, is exactly what its name suggests. It’s the idea that the society and groups that an individual belongs to are what influences development, thoughts, and behavior. The sociocultural perspective was

other areas, but the origins of these areas enables them all to fall under the

“’Identity has been increasingly used to refer to the social and historical make-up of a person, personality as a construct. Sometimes such identities are conceived narrowly psychological, individualist terms, as the cumulative result of personal experience and family history”

principal fields, with scenarios: developmental, physiological/biological, personality, clinical/counseling, social, industrial/organizational. Perhaps the field that best umbrellas the author’s firsthand experience is Physiological/Biological Psychology, since the

Throughout the course of the first semester we as a Psychology class learned a whole variety of different and varying concepts of Psychology. Chapter one we went over all the different ways psychologists study behaviors and mental processes. Included were the contemporary perspectives, such as behavioral, which focuses on behavior that is observed. Psychodynamic focuses on our fantasies and our hidden motives. Humanistic is all about our free will and conscious choices. Physiological is the relationships between biological processes and behavior. Cognitive perspective is our acquired knowledge, and last but not least is sociocultural, which places great value on the role of cultural and social influences on our behavior.

This course is designed to introduce the student to fundamental psychological processes, their nature and development, and contemporary methods for their study through a survey of the major research areas in the field. Areas covered include the biological and evolutionary bases of thought and behavior, motivation and emotion, learning, memory, thinking, personality, developmental, and social psychology. Students are expected to participate in three hours of psychological research during the semester. Two 75-minute periods.

The article first starts off with the author seeing how long he can hold his breathe which was 1 minute and 12 seconds. Then the author goes and trains with a UK free diver who gets him up to a minute 30. The Diver was trained longer than him though and she could hold her breathe for 5 minutes. She explained to him how she was able to do this from breathing techniques.

The British Psychological Society states that ‘Psychology is the scientific study of people, the mind and behaviour’ (BPS). In this essay I will be discussing what is actually meant by this and whether psychology fits into both the traditional views of a science, as well as more contemporary perspectives. It is widely suggested that Psychology is a “coalition of specialities” meaning it is multi-disciplinary (Hewstone, Fincham and Foster 2005, page 4). I will therefore examine whether it could be considered wrong to think that all parts of the discipline should neatly fit into one view of a scientific approach.

Within the field of personality psychology there are six main domains of knowledge; the dispositional domain, the intrapsychic domain, the biological domain, the cognitive-experiential domain, the social and cultural domain, and the adjustment domain. While no domain is more important or influential over any other domain, the biological domain presents many theories that help explain the questions that arise within personality psychology, specifically the biological domain deals with the traits or characteristics that can be found within the person. Within the biological domain there are three main approaches; genetics and personality, physiological approaches to personality, and evolutionary perspectives on personality. Evolutionary psychologists

Since the beginning of mankind, there have been attempts to figure out how and why people differ. People who study personality traits tend to focus on various aspects of human behaviors such as, social interactions, development, learning, and culture. In addition, they study physiology, genetics, and pathology. They look at all aspects of being human and try to classify, organize, and understand them. Historically

Howard W. Hunter former precedent for the american church society said “The greatest search of our time is the search for personal identity and for human dignity.”(Brough.m 1995). The search for identity is a key search for one to find an idol that can become a role to lead the lifestyle of himself or herself. Identity is to understand and define one self; developing a concept of the purpose of our existence(onecountry.org).Their is a relationship between your identity and personality, whenever, a person released his or hers identity what he or she stands for it will be reflected on their personality. What gives us our identity? why we engage with others in specific way? This are questions that confront us as we lead our lives every day. personality is complex it changes throughout life time from the time of infancy to adulthood(griffen.p et al). Adolescence is the stage where maturity in physical as well as a development of one’s personality and identity, it is also a transition to adulthood which involves a continuous growth of character in a sense of identity(Waterman, A. S.341). This is the stage where people search for their identities of them self; It might become easy for some but not for every body.

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