Henry Murray - Summary Introduction to Psychology PDF

Preview

Summary

PERSONOLOGY: HENRY MURRAY (1893-1988)○ designed an approach that includes:○ conscious and unconscious forces○ influence of the past, present and future○ impact physiological/ sociological factors○ influenced of Freudian can be seen in Murray’s recognition of the effect on adult behavior of childhood...

Description

PERSONOLOGY: HENRY MURRAY (1893-1988) ○ designed an approach that includes: ○ conscious and unconscious forces ○ influence of the past, present and future ○ impact physiological/ sociological factors ○ influenced of Freudian can be seen in Murray’s recognition of the effect on adult behavior of childhood experiences and in his notions of the id, ego and superego. PRINCIPLES OF PERSONALOGY The individual’s cerebral physiology guides and governs Personality is Rooted every aspect of the in the Brain personality. Ex: certain drugs can alter the functioning of the brain and personality. Process of acting to reduce tension that is satisfying rather than attainment of a condition free of all tension. Tension-Free People Act to Reduce Existence: source of distress. Physiological and Psychological We need excitement, Tension activity, movement (involve increasing tension). The ideal state of human nature involves always having a certain level of tension to reduce It’s constructed of all the events that occur during the course of Individual’s that person’s life. Personality Continues to Develop Study of a person’s past is of great importance. Personality Changes It is not fixed/static. and Progresses Emphasized the Individual’s is like no

Uniqueness of Each while Recognizing Similarities among all people.

other person, like some other people and like every other person.

THE DIVISIONS OF PERSONALITY Repository of all innate impulsive tendencies. Provides energy and direction to behavior and is concerned with motivation. Encompasses innate 1. ID impulses that society considers acceptable and desirable. Contains tendency to empathy, imitation, identification, forms of love other than lustful ones and tendency to master one’s environment. Internalization of the culture’s value and norms, by which rules we come to evaluate and judge our behavior and that of others. Imposed on children 2. SUPEREGO at early age by their parents and other authority figures. Not inconstant conflict with the ID (compare to Freud) because it contains good forces as well as bad ones. While superego is developing, so is the EGO IDEAL: provides us with long-range goals for which to strive. It also represents what we could become at our best and is the sum of our ambitions and aspirations. The rational governor of the personality. It tries to modify or

PERSONOLOGY: HENRY MURRAY (1893-1988)

3. EGO

delay unacceptable impulses of id. Central organizer of the behavior. It consciously reasons, decides and wills the direction of behavior. More active in determining behavior than Freud believed. Not merely the servant of the id, the ego consciously plans courses of action. Functions not only to suppress id pleasure but also to foster pleasure by organizing/directing the expression of acceptable id impulses.

TYPES OF NEEDS (1) Primary Needs or Viscerogenic Needs : arise from internal bodily states and include those needs required for survival (food, water, air, sex and sentience). (2) Secondary Needs or Psychogenic Needs : arise indirectly from primary needs which are concerned w/ emotional satisfaction and include most of the needs on Murray’s original list. (3) Reactive Needs : involve a response to something specific in the environment and are aroused only when that object appears. (4) Proactive Needs : don’t depend on the presence of a particular object and they are spontaneous needs that elicit appropriate behavior whenever they are aroused, independent of the environment. CHARACTERISTIC NEEDS

(1) Protency : needs differ in terms of the urgency with which they impel behavior. (2) Fusion of Needs : some needs are complementary, can be satisfied by one behavior or a set of behaviors. (3) Subsidiation : a situation in which one need is active to aid in satisfying another need. (4) Press : the influence of an environmental object/ event that presses or pressures the individual to act a certain way. (5) Thema : it combines personal factors (needs) with the environmental factors that pressure or compel our behavior (presses). PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT IN CHILD

COMPLEX

The secure existence within the womb. The sensuous enjoyment of sucking nourishment while being held The pleasure resulting from defecation The pleasure accompanying urination Genital Pleasures

Claustral Complexes Oral Complexes

Anal Complexes

Urethral Complexes

Genital/Castration Complex

STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT

PERSONOLOGY: HENRY MURRAY (1893-1988) (1) CLAUSTRAL STAGE

(5) GENITAL/ CASTRATION STAGE

: the fetus in the womb is secure, serene and dependent, conditions we may all occasionally wish to reinstate.

: disagreed with Freud’s contention that fear of castration is the core of anxiety in adult males.

○ simple claustral complex: is experienced as a desire to be in small, warm, dark places that are safe and secluded. ○ insupport claustral complex: centers on feelings of insecurity and helplessness that cause the person to fear open spaces, falling, drowning, fires, earthquakes or simply any situation involving novelty and change. ○ anti-claustral/ aggression claustral complex: is based on a need to escape from restraining womblike conditions. (2) ORAL STAGE ○ oral succorance complex: are combination of mouth activities, passive tendencies and the need to be supported and protected. ○ oral aggression complex: oral and aggressive behaviors, including biting, spitting, shouting and verbal aggression (sarcasm). ○ oral rejection complex: vomiting, being picky to food, eating little, fearing oral contamination (such as from kissing), desiring seclusion and avoiding dependence on others. (3) ANAL STAGE ○ anal rejection complex: there’s preoccupation with defecation, anal humor and feces-like material such as dirt, mud, plaster and clay. Persons with this, may be dirty and disorganized. ○ anal retention complex: it is manifested in accumulating, saving and collecting things and in cleanliness, neatness and orderliness. (4) URETHRAL STAGE : associated with excessive ambition, a distorted sense of self-esteem, exhibitionism, bedwetting, sexual cravings and self-love.

LIST OF NEEDS...