Freud was a supporter of defense mechanisms: unconscious strategies to protect the self from anxiety. The defense mechanism shown is reaction formation. This is when someone switches unacceptable impulses into the opposite: also known as overcompensation.
How Rogers Sees Me
I'm happy with myself ☮♡
Karen Horney believed that people desired love and were motivated by attempting to get enough love. She thought there were three ways people would react to not receiving enough: compliance, aggression, and withdraw. Withdraw is when a person moves away from others.
How Costa & McCrae See Me
This is going to be okay. Something new to use my knowledge.
Carl Jung supported the concept of synchronicity: occurrence of meaningful coincidences. In my family butterflies are a symbol of my Uncle Jeff. When thinking about him and you see a butterfly, it is a way of showing he loved you.
How Bandura Sees Me
I don't know nearly enough to take this class...
Rogers was a humanist. Humanists believed that people were consciously trying to become the person we want to be (ideal self). In order to facilitate growth, one should keep in mind genuineness, acceptance, and empathy.
Costa believed that our personality is determined by a scale of 5 traits. They are open, conscientious, extroversion, agreeable, and neuroticism. The ideal placement of each of these traits is in the middle of the scale of not at all to very much that trait
Bandura was a proponent of the concept of self-efficacy. This is the idea of how competent we feel in accomplishing tasks, how capable we believe we are.