What do you know after knowing someone’s traits? The second stage of knowing a person, is knowing what their personal concerns are. Personal concerns are the values, goals, and how needs determine personality. There are three approaches to defining personal concerns: psychodynamic, social-cognitive, and humanistic. The humanistic approach explains what is uniquely human. The social-cognitive approach is how personality traits and situations influence behavior and the psychodynamic is based on how an individual’s childhood may influence their behavior.
Trump bases his actions and goals on the basis of id and superego. The id seeks to maintain our basic needs and instincts. The primal urge of the id is sex, violence, and to seek other forms of …show more content…
One of Trump’s traits is narcissism, which in the McAdam’s (2016) article, it states that people display this trait because they lack early-life mirroring. This means that the parents failed to lovingly reflect on their child’s budding grandiosity, in return, leaving the child desperately seeking affirmation from others throughout their lives. Love and belongingness reflects Trump’s narcissistic tendencies in this way. Trump shows the Esteem stage with his need to be the best, be successful, and prove that he can be president. These two hierarchy of needs, tie in with the Boeree (2016) article on Erik Erikson’s stages of development. Out of the eight possible stages, the adolescence stage, ego-identity versus role-confusion, elaborates on Donald’s personality. In Trump’s adolescences, he is in the ego-identity stage, because of the guidance of his father. Ego-identity is understanding how you fit into society and knowing who you are. At this stage in Trump’s life he was encouraged to be a “killer” by Fred Trump, his father. By taking his father’s advice, he was later sent to military school to deal with his aggression, which is how he understood how to fit in society. Students from the military school recall that Trump acts the way he did in military school, the same way as he does now and hadn’t matured as the rest of them did, as seen in the Boghani, Childress & …show more content…
Hillary Clinton expresses Type-I curiosity, which is a type of curiosity that is shown when a person is motivated to acquire general knowledge. Type-I curiosity is described as pleasurable and emotional evocative. Hillary has shown this pleasure from curiosity in the documentary, The Choice. In the documentary it explains that Hillary was adamant about seeing the speech by Martin Luther King Jr. Even at the age of fourteen she was recruiting for rallies and registered voters. After hearing Martin Luther King Jr’s speech, the lasting feelings affected them very, very deeply and felt fulfilled in many ways. King fueled Hillary’s “awakening” politically as seen in the article by Boghani, Childress & Worth (2016). This also relates to Self-actualization on Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. Self-actualization is defined as the need to fulfill one’s inner potential; there are three proposed self-actualization needs: Knowledge and Understanding, Aesthetic, and Self-transcendence. In this example, Hillary displays the need for knowledge and understanding before the MLKJ speech and self-transcendence after his speech. Self-transcendence is the need to connect with something, beyond one’s self and to help
Trump bases his actions and goals on the basis of id and superego. The id seeks to maintain our basic needs and instincts. The primal urge of the id is sex, violence, and to seek other forms of …show more content…
One of Trump’s traits is narcissism, which in the McAdam’s (2016) article, it states that people display this trait because they lack early-life mirroring. This means that the parents failed to lovingly reflect on their child’s budding grandiosity, in return, leaving the child desperately seeking affirmation from others throughout their lives. Love and belongingness reflects Trump’s narcissistic tendencies in this way. Trump shows the Esteem stage with his need to be the best, be successful, and prove that he can be president. These two hierarchy of needs, tie in with the Boeree (2016) article on Erik Erikson’s stages of development. Out of the eight possible stages, the adolescence stage, ego-identity versus role-confusion, elaborates on Donald’s personality. In Trump’s adolescences, he is in the ego-identity stage, because of the guidance of his father. Ego-identity is understanding how you fit into society and knowing who you are. At this stage in Trump’s life he was encouraged to be a “killer” by Fred Trump, his father. By taking his father’s advice, he was later sent to military school to deal with his aggression, which is how he understood how to fit in society. Students from the military school recall that Trump acts the way he did in military school, the same way as he does now and hadn’t matured as the rest of them did, as seen in the Boghani, Childress & …show more content…
Hillary Clinton expresses Type-I curiosity, which is a type of curiosity that is shown when a person is motivated to acquire general knowledge. Type-I curiosity is described as pleasurable and emotional evocative. Hillary has shown this pleasure from curiosity in the documentary, The Choice. In the documentary it explains that Hillary was adamant about seeing the speech by Martin Luther King Jr. Even at the age of fourteen she was recruiting for rallies and registered voters. After hearing Martin Luther King Jr’s speech, the lasting feelings affected them very, very deeply and felt fulfilled in many ways. King fueled Hillary’s “awakening” politically as seen in the article by Boghani, Childress & Worth (2016). This also relates to Self-actualization on Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. Self-actualization is defined as the need to fulfill one’s inner potential; there are three proposed self-actualization needs: Knowledge and Understanding, Aesthetic, and Self-transcendence. In this example, Hillary displays the need for knowledge and understanding before the MLKJ speech and self-transcendence after his speech. Self-transcendence is the need to connect with something, beyond one’s self and to help