Each contribution made to psychology has helped the world understand the way the mind works and how our behavior is affected when trauma or positive reinforcements occur. Skinner, Freud, Maslow, and Carl Rogers all contributed either to the behavioral, the psychoanalysis or the humanistic perspective. Skinner focuses on Operant Conditioning – reinforcements that affect whether behavior reoccurs. Freud believes that the first five years are important to an adult’s personality as well as improving in each step to successfully move on to the next. Maslow believes in the free will of all individuals while Rogers believes in achieving the full potential of one’s self. These four perspectives can help “make or break” an individual. Here’s why.
Skinner believed that the best way to understand behavior would be to “look at the causes of an action and its consequences.” This was better known as Operant Conditioning. He based his ideas off of Thorndike’s law of effect and introduced a new term called Law of Effect – Reinforcement. The idea of reinforcement is that behavior that is reinforced will most likely be repeated whereas behavior that is not reinforced will soon die out. He named three different types of responses that may be an effect …show more content…
(1970, January 01). Freud also proposed that psychological development in childhood occurs in a five psychosexual stages: oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital. Throughout each stage the mind must also fulfill Id, Ego, and Superego. ID warrants constant and immediate attention. Ego deals with reality while still trying to satisfy the needs of ID. Superego deals with what we know as right or wrong- morally. Ego and Superego may reach a decision in what they believe they should do but the difference between the two is that Id focuses more on what other people would think while Superego focuses on what is right and
Skinner believed that the best way to understand behavior would be to “look at the causes of an action and its consequences.” This was better known as Operant Conditioning. He based his ideas off of Thorndike’s law of effect and introduced a new term called Law of Effect – Reinforcement. The idea of reinforcement is that behavior that is reinforced will most likely be repeated whereas behavior that is not reinforced will soon die out. He named three different types of responses that may be an effect …show more content…
(1970, January 01). Freud also proposed that psychological development in childhood occurs in a five psychosexual stages: oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital. Throughout each stage the mind must also fulfill Id, Ego, and Superego. ID warrants constant and immediate attention. Ego deals with reality while still trying to satisfy the needs of ID. Superego deals with what we know as right or wrong- morally. Ego and Superego may reach a decision in what they believe they should do but the difference between the two is that Id focuses more on what other people would think while Superego focuses on what is right and