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One assumption, probably the most obvious. Humans are born as blank slates (this comes from Behaviourism) Everyone is born identical, and everything about us that makes us different is shaped by our environment. How you end up depends upon how you are brought up. For example our personality traits like shyness, confidence, sense of humour, aggression - it's all shaped by the environment. The reasons for our differences is that everyone has different environmental stimuli such as friends, family, culture, media etc.
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According to Behavourists your personality is the way you respond to environmental stimuli.
Stimulus - Anything in the environment that has an impact on us.
Response - Obviously, how we respond to these stimuli. Some are natural reflexes like flinching or shivering when it's cold, jumping at loud noises but then there are other responses that we learn, like slowing down at a speed limit sign.
Apart from natural reflexes, none of these responses are set meaning they can be changed, Behaviourist therapy helps people by helping them learn to respond to things in more positive ways.
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Our personality and behaviour as adults are learnt from our early childhood experiences How one goes through each stage of Freud's stages of psychosexual development and the fixations (too little or too much pleasure) that might occur at each stage may have an effect on mental health or personality. In these childhood years relationships formed with parents also determines their adult personality.
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Our behaviour, motivations and emotions are influenced by the unconscious mind. Freud believed that most of our personality is hidden in our unconscious level and the reasons why we behave the way we do is unknown to us. The unconscious mind is filled with sexual urges and childhood experiences. The unconscious can be accessed using psychoanalysis - techniques like dream interpretation and free association.
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One assumption, probably the most obvious. Humans are born as blank slates (this comes from Behaviourism) Everyone is born identical, and everything about us that makes us different is shaped by our environment. How you end up depends upon how you are brought up. For example our personality traits like shyness, confidence, sense of humour, aggression - it's all shaped by the environment. The reasons for our differences is that everyone has different environmental stimuli such as friends, family, culture, media etc.
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According to Behavourists your personality is the way you respond to environmental stimuli.
Stimulus - Anything in the environment that has an impact on us.
Response - Obviously, how we respond to these stimuli. Some are natural reflexes like flinching or shivering when it's cold, jumping at loud noises but then there are other responses that we learn, like slowing down at a speed limit sign.
Apart from natural reflexes, none of these responses are set meaning they can be changed, Behaviourist therapy helps people by helping them learn to respond to things in more positive ways.
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Our personality and behaviour as adults are learnt from our early childhood experiences How one goes through each stage of Freud's stages of psychosexual development and the fixations (too little or too much pleasure) that might occur at each stage may have an effect on mental health or personality. In these childhood years relationships formed with parents also determines their adult personality.
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Our behaviour, motivations and emotions are influenced by the unconscious mind. Freud believed that most of our personality is hidden in our unconscious level and the reasons why we behave the way we do is unknown to us. The unconscious mind is filled with sexual urges and childhood experiences. The unconscious can be accessed using psychoanalysis - techniques like dream interpretation and free association.
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