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PSY 328 Project One Template For this project, you will write a theory application paper; you will apply theories of personality to yourself, someone you know, or someone you have read about in a biography or autobiography. Complete this template by replacing the bracketed text with the relevant information. 1. Identify who you are applying theories of personality to and explain why. Your response should be about 3 to 5 sentences in length. I am applying theories of personality to myself for this project. I chose to use myself because it’s a great way to not only get know me better, but also allows me to reflect on myself. If I am unable to apply theories of personality to myself in ways that are complete and raw, then I believe that it would be hard for me to apply theories of personality to other people. 2. Describe how components of a personality theory of your choice relate to your subject. Your response should be about 6 to 10 sentences in length and include the following: A. Components of personality theory, including but not limited to traits, behaviors, motives, or defense mechanisms B. Multiple components from the theory applied to your subject with examples (i.e., behaviors that exemplify the concepts) C. Citations when you are describing the theory The first personality theory I will be applying to myself is the humanistic psychology. Humanistic psychology focuses on the entire individual with an emphasis on free will. According to Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs (1943), every person is born with a set of needs. When those needs are met, they can move up in the hierarchy eventually reaching their self-actualization. Humanistic psychology also believes that individuals are ultimately in control of their selves. As a child, I’ve always been one to do what I felt was right. Sometimes, that meant being the outcast while other times it meant being the leader. Though I was raised to listen attentively and follow rules, I also took pride in my morals and standing up against injustices. This is where free will became most important to me. I wanted to figure everything out on my own, I wanted to take the tools I’ve acquire so far in life and see where it could take me. In this, I found myself changing and growing a lot. The more boundaries I pushed, the further I got. I eventually realized that when I found myself stuck in life, it was because there was a need that was unmet and a part of me that felt unfulfilled. Understanding how Maslow’s hierarchy of needs worked, helped me eventually move past areas of my life in which I felt stuck. 3. Describe how components of a second personality theory of your choice relate to your subject. Your response should be about 6 to 10 sentences in length and include the following: A. Components of personality theory, including but not limited to traits, behaviors, motives, or defense mechanisms B. Multiple components from the theory applied to your subject with examples (i.e., behaviors that exemplify the concepts) C. Citations when you are describing the theory The second personality theory I will be applying to myself is psychoanalytic theory. According to psychoanalytic theory, repression, unconscious minds, and unresolved childhood difficulties are the root 1

causes of people's suffering. In Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic theory (1983), Freud argued that human behavior is a direct result of the unconscious mind and urges. At the age of 15, I was raped and became pregnant. After the rape, I went on with my life as if nothing happened. In the beginning it was hard to suppress my emotions. I was filled with fear, guilt, rage, and confusion. It reflected through my behavior. I became more distant to my family and friends. My grades started dropping and I was a lot more irritable than the average teenage girl. By time I found out I was pregnant, I was too far along to terminate the pregnancy, so I was left to just face it. When I had my son, I put everything I had in me into being the best mom I could be. Although teenage parenthood had become so normalized in the U.S., I learned very fast that it is NOT a job for a child. I struggled to finish school; I would work long hours for a paycheck that was barley $100. I missed out completely on being a teen. I became resentful and this resulted in a lot of years I spent feeling like I was lost in the world. 4. Describe the limitations of each of the two theories you related to your subject. Your response should be about 6 to 10 sentences in length and include at least one limitation for each theory. One limitation that comes with humanistic psychology is that it puts too much control on the individual. It gives the illusion that if you do the necessary work better things will come, and everything will just be up hill from there. It doesn’t consider how altering outside/inside influences can be and how much influence they have over how a person responds to the world. One limitation that comes with the psychoanalytic theory is that it takes full responsibility on one’s actions off the individual and places it on their unconscious while also suggesting that a person’s traits are fixated and uncontrollable. If this were the case, then there would be no point in studying the brain and how to changes in response to stimuli. 5. Explain why taking a holistic approach and applying multiple theories to a subject is better than applying only one. Your response should be about 6 to 10 sentences in length. Taking a holistic approach and applying multiple theories to a subject is better than applying only one because you can study the entire individual. When you take from just one aspect of personality theory, you negate other areas that are important to who the individual is. If I were to just look at psychoanalytic theory when analyzing my personality theory, I would be left to believe that because the traumas I endured during my adolescence, I am unable to control my impulse and ultimately, my true being would be reduced to a helpless victim. When I look at my personality theory using both psychoanalytic theory and humanistic psychology, I am able to see that my behaviors and defense mechanisms, are a direct result from my unconscious trauma of abuse and isolation during my adolescent years; however, with that in mind, I am able to look closely at what I need from Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and evaluate how my trauma interferes with what I need, then work from there. In using the holistic approach, I can target both my unconscious mind as well as my physical needs to help me get through the day. References Freud, S. (1983). A general introduction to psychoanalysis . Wordsworth Editions. 2

Maslow, A.H. (1943). “A Theory of Human Motivation”. In Psychological Review. 3

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