Cognitive: emphasizes that personality development is affected by thoughts, which in turn are shaped by social interactions. It emphasizes the role of the person’s experiences, of consistent patterns of cognitive processing, of the view of self, and of behavior.
Disorders stem from constant perceptions of the world as a dangerous place, resulting in a process of maladaptive and habitual interactions among cognitive, behavioral, and physiological response systems.
Psychoanalytic: behavior springs from unconscious conflicts between pleasure-seeking impulses and social restraints. It uses projective tests aimed at revealing unconscious motivations. It is a speculative, hard-to-test theory with enormous cultural impact
July 7th, 2009 at 8:53 pm
Cognitive: emphasizes that personality development is affected by thoughts, which in turn are shaped by social interactions. It emphasizes the role of the person’s experiences, of consistent patterns of cognitive processing, of the view of self, and of behavior.
Disorders stem from constant perceptions of the world as a dangerous place, resulting in a process of maladaptive and habitual interactions among cognitive, behavioral, and physiological response systems.
Psychoanalytic: behavior springs from unconscious conflicts between pleasure-seeking impulses and social restraints. It uses projective tests aimed at revealing unconscious motivations. It is a speculative, hard-to-test theory with enormous cultural impact