The Behavourist and Humanist schools give very different s of the `motivated personality`. Use theorists John B.Watson and B.F Skinner from Behaviourist School and Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow from Humanist schools. Descibe their similarities

Motivated Personality

Table of Contents

Table of Contents .1

Motivated Personality Introduction .2

The Behaviorist Perspective .2

Humanist School .5 Conclusion .7 References .9

Motivated Personality

Introduction

Various schools of thought differ on how their perspectives on psychology primarily personality and motivation . According to the Columbia Encyclopedia (2004 ,

.37075 ) article on Personality personality is defined as the patterns of behavior , thought and emotion unique to an individual , and the ways they interact to help or hinder the adjustment of a person to other people and situation

(The Columbia Encyclopedia , 2004 ,

.37075 . Modern psychology seeks to resolve the question as to whether or not motivation has an important role in defining human behavior and personality . According to McClelland (1951 ,

.383 , the level of motivation and the type of motivation determines the level of outputs under varying conditions . In to have a clearer understanding on the concept of personality and the role of motivation in shaping human behavior , it is essential to discuss the various theories and concepts presented by the world 's most noted theorists . Major schools include the behaviorist and the humanistic perspectives . These two groups of thinkers explain how personality can be motivated pointing out two extremely strong influence on personality , one claiming on the natural and innate potentials of human beings , the other claiming on the role of the environment in motivated personality

The Behaviorist Perspective

One of the long-standing views on personality development is behaviorism . According to Watson (1924 ,

.4 , for the behaviorists psychology is that part of natural science that considers human behavior as learned and unlearned . Under this perspective , human personality can variably change when subjected to a new environment (The Columbia Encyclopedia , 2004 ,

.37075 , with motivations changed . The new environment can present new motivations for the person to act different from what he used to in his old environment . With this view , the behaviorist also rejects the claim that internal thoughts and feelings are the sole determinants of personality (Van Wagner , n .d

While the number of behaviorist theorists may also have differing explanations on specific psychological issues , basic behaviorist principles include the claim that the mental process cannot be explained scientifically and the most basic principle that states that if you can 't see it and can 't measure it , it doesn 't exist (Theoretical Perspectives in Psychology , n .d . In addition , the behaviorist school of thought also argues that human behavior is learned and that of which human acts is intrinsic in his nature (Theoretical Perspectives in Psychology , n .d . In the process of learning and in shaping personality , the motivations available in the environment often are the strongest . This is exactly the same reason why John Watson posits that subjected into a specific motivational environment a person can be made to whoever he can be regardless of his potentials , talents and tendencies . This explains why a person born and raise in an environment surrounded with bad people , or those with extremely strong personality , motivation...