In this paper I will explore various personality theories as applied to River Tam. River Tam is portrayed in the 2002 television series 'Firefly ' and the 2005 movie 'Serenity '. She grew up as a part of the wealthy Tam family on the “core” planet, Osirius. Osirius is governed by the “Alliance,” which is a part of the Union of all planets or the UAP. The UAP was established after a war which lasted for 6 years. It is comparable to our own government combined with China’s, strict, money ruled politics, corrupt officials, etc… Early in her life, as young as 3, she was discovered to be quite intellectually gifted. She was also portrayed as being remarkably graceful which is depicted by the elegance with which she fights. At age 14, River was enrolled in the graduate physics program and had become bored with her studies. The Alliance used the guise of a school for the gifted and took River into a program used to train government assassins. She was …show more content…
Horney theorized that the conflicts we experience are based on interpersonal problems. She postulated that there were three ways to resolve conflict which were moving toward, against, or away from. A healthy person should be able to use all three methods depending on their situation. Applying Horney’s theory shows that River is a move away type person. She is so afraid of losing the ones she loves she won’t get close to anyone. She has a general fear that she will hurt someone which also aides her in placing distance between herself and others. She is highly aware that she is different from other people because of the experiments done on her. This is supported by her detached attitude. River Tam suffers from many manufactured disturbances. It is questionable what changes the brain damage caused to her personality. According to these theories her personality was well developed due to her rather calm and loving
In this paper I analyze a character’s mental disorder from the film Running With Scissors. This character is named Deirdre Burroughs. Deirdre suffers from narcissistic personality disorder. The paper touches on various symptoms that Deirdre displays because of her disorder. Also, I provide two ethological theories that I believe may have caused Deirdre to develop narcissistic personality disorder. I was able to find evidence from the Abnormal Psychology: An Integrative Approach to support my theories. I was also able to obtain further information from an article that discusses on the disorder. Lastly, this paper provides a negative message that the film has on narcissistic personality disorder.
Schultz, D. P., & Schultz, S. E. (2013). Theories of personality (10th ed.). Belmont, CA: Cengage/Wadsworth.
Human assets experts regularly utilize the Big Five identity measurements to help place workers. That is on account of these measurements are thought to be the hidden qualities that make up a singular 's general identity. The "enormous five" are general classes of identity characteristics. While there is a critical collection of writing supporting this five-component model of identity, specialists don 't generally concur on the accurate marks for each one measurement. The Big Five characteristics are Openness, Conscientiousness, Extroversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism:
The Big Five is currently the most accepted personality model in the scientific community. The Big Five emerged from the work of multiple independent scientists/researchers starting in the 1950s who using different techniques obtained similar results. Those results were that there are five distinct personality traits/dimensions. Here are your results on each dimension:
Feist, J., & Feist, G. J. (2009). Theories of Personality (7th ed.). New York, New York: McGraw-Hill.
Alejandra Martinez Exam 1 1. What is the difference between a. and a. Personality “typology” is historically old. Give two examples of historical typology. A. Sheldon suggested that the human body be categorized. He introduced Sheldon’s Somatotypes, which associates body types with human temperament, into three types: 1.
Cervone, D., Pervin, L. A. (2008). Personality: Theory and research (10th Ed.). New York: Wiley.
Sigmund Freud was born on May 6, 1856, in Austria (?). His family moved to Vienna in 1860, and that is where Freud spent, mostly, the remainder of his life (?). Freud is considered the father of Psychoanalysis, the first acknowledged personality theory (?). His theory suggest that a person’s personality is controlled by their unconscious which is established in their early childhood. The psychoanalytic theory is made up of three different elements interacting to make up the human personality: the id, the ego, and the superego (?).
Feist, J., Feist, G. J., & Roberts, T. A. (2009). Theories of personality. New York:
organizing principle. It propels you on your life path. It represents the orderly arrangement of
The purpose of this research report is to investigate the personality of Beyoncé Knowles in terms of humanistic and trait conceptions of personality.
Using the Jung Typology Personality Test gives some insight into my personality preference. The Jung Typology Personality Test is a system that explains a formula of four letters. Each letter spells out each aspect of your personality; could be used to point me into a suitable career fields, tell the communication and learning style I use in my daily life, at work or at home. The result of the test shows that I am of the ISTJ personality type. From what I have seen from the test, I believe in its accuracy, knowing what I do about myself. From studying the Jung theory, it gives me a number of explanations to behaviors I have been practicing knowingly and at times unconsciously. Some of the benefits to be gained from this experience will
Magnavita, J. J. (2002). Theories of personality: Contemporary approaches to the science of personality. New York: Wiley.
In the study of psychology there are four major theories of personality. They are Social Cognitive, Psychoanalytic, Humanistic, and Behavioral. Of course, they are all different and portray different types of behavioral patterns. Personality studies have been founded on the perception that all people are alike in some ways, but can be different in other ways. I have placed the four personality theories where I think they belong on the nature versus nurture continuum.
The central point of Bandura’s article is to discuss his concepts of self-efficacy and self-regulation in a broader social cognitive framework, which he labeled “human agency”. This construct refers to personal efforts to control one's functioning and life circumstances, and its core properties are intentions, forethought, self-reactions, and self-reflection. Thus, Bandura's theoretical approach conceptualizes the person as a contributor of his or her life circumstances and not merely as a product, in that, the person is proactive agent in adjustment not just an onlooker.