Personality Theorists

Joseph M. Fowler 27 Apr 04 Personality Theories Judy Powers Melanie Klein (1882 -1960): She started the shift in emphasis away from studying innate biological instincts and towards relations between people. She described how, primarily because of anxiety over aggressive impulses, children split objects and feelings into good and bad aspects in an effort to retain good ones as part of the self while getting rid of bad ones by projecting them onto others. Splitting of an object …

…movement and realistic goal levels; maladjusted individuals believe that they are unable to get the gratifications they desire through their own efforts. <Tab/>His cognitive social learning theory creatively combines traditionally learning theory with an interest in cognition. His theory is very appealing to experimentally oriented researchers and his emphasis on cognitive factors is greater than that of Bandura. It is very much in line with current trends in academic psychology.