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A 4 page paper that discusses the major schools of psychological thought and supports Freud's pschoanalysis as the most influential and effective. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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urges (Hall, 1954). The humanists, led by Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow believed that human behavior is governed by the individuals sense of self (Weiten, 1995). Behaviorists such as Watson,
who began the movement, and Skinner, who continued it, believed behavior is the result of stimulus and reaction interaction (Maddi, 1976). Since there are hundreds of thousands of adherents to
each philosophy, each approach must have something to offer in the way of understanding personality development and why people do what they do.
Most of the world is familiar with Freuds division of the personality into three system: the id, the ego, and the superego. Each system, according to Freud, has specific
roles to play in a persons life. The function of the Id is to reduce the amount of tension and excess energy in
a person, to basically find pleasure and avoid pain. It is a primitive system that seeks to avoid conflict, ease tensions, and do whatever leads to pleasure. As such, it
is a system that needs to be kept in check (Hall, 1954). The Ego is the go-between for the Id and the
Superego; it is like a caretaker to make certain both of the other systems function moderately and dont get carried away with their own goals and objectives. The Ego is
concerned with reality and as such separates the world within the subjective mind from the real physical world outside (Hall, 1954). The
Superego is the moral or judicial system and considers the ideal rather than the real. It strives for perfection rather than for pleasure or reality. It is basically a persons
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