Essays on Psychological theories

With countless personality assessments available, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is most often chosen over the others. Based on the theories of Carl Jung, this assessment identifies personality constructs based on four different scales. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is often used to determine the level of leadership ability that an individual possesses. This information can be…

            A popular concern of parents over their children’s safety has been the rising number of gang membership in most cities in the country as well as the large number of violence-related behaviors of these gangs. Previous studies on gang violence had focused on the crimes committed by gangs, what caused gang violence and the…

Robert Gagne and Leslie Briggs came up with different types of instructional prescriptions based on different situation needs. Gagne came up with a theory of how learning occurs while Briggs came up with many instructional development prescriptions and procedures. According to Gagne, learning can be organized in form of hierarchy such as complexity, response generation,…

Analyzing Erikson’s Contemporary Psychoanalytic Theory Introduction             During his lifetime, Sigmund Freud became the sole and primary authority in the field of psychoanalysis.  However, after his death, many began to feel that Freud’s work became more and more based on speculation rather than analytic data that was derived from observation that many began to refute…

I knew very little about Sigmund Freud and his approach to psychology before I began this essay, but after researching his many theories it struck me that here was a man who in his life, and even after his death in 1939 became someone who was either highly thought of, or very highly criticised. I…

The three need theory of David McClelland tries to explain why people behave the way they do. The theory basically says that individual’s are motivated to work because they have to satisfy their needs for achievement, affiliation and power (Bateman & Snell, 2007). Applying this theory to myself, I found that as a person I…

Kraiger, K., Ford, J.K., and Salas, E. Application of cognitive, skill-based, and affective theories of learning outcomes to new methods of training evaluation. Journal of Applied Psychology 78 (1993), pp. 311–328. The topic addressed by this article is training evaluation. At the moment, measurement of training success relies on two basic concepts: whether training objectives…

Eric and Kipsy’s case study helps to demonstrate the complex nature of management and organizational behavior. The case also shows the difficulty in identifying a single solution to a particular problem. Eric is the new manager of product information for a national firm which wholesales electrical components and Kipsy is a clerk. Eric is appointed…

Sigmund Freud was born in Monrovia on May 6, 1856. He entered the University of Vienna in 1873 at the age of 17. He finished his degree in 1881. Freud died in England in 1939. He was an active therapist, theorist, and writer to the very end. ( Ewen 19-20) Erich Fromm was born four…

Chase Thomas Prof. Julia Elliot English 282 November 15, 2011 “The Cavemen in the Hedges” “The Cavemen in the Hedges” is a short story that contains many underlying themes of psychoanalytical theory. Themes of the “id,” a selfish, primal, version of one’s self concerned only with physical desires; the “superego,” part of a person’s psyche…