Biological and Humanistic Approaches to Personality

Biological and Humanistic Approaches to Personality

Eric Lee

PSY/250

01/25/2015

SARAH JAMES-FELTON

Biological and Humanistic Approaches to Personality

Understanding the Biological and Humanistic Approaches to Personality can help an individual determine the reason for their personalities. Every person has his or her unique personality about himself or herself. Our personality is what makes each individual different from one another. Personalities controls out emotion, unconscious feeling, and behavior making it difficult to determine how a person will react to certain situation. Using the Maslow’s hierarchy needs can help demonstrate the reason for humanistic approaches and the growth influence of each individual personality.

Maslow’s hierarchy of needs

Using the Maslow’s hierarchy of needs growth influence personality based on five major categories of each individual. The first is physiological needs such as food, clothing, sleep, oxygen, and shelter. To get through life individuals personality has to encounter the physiological need in order to live as a human. The second level is safety and security, each individual has a sense that he or she feels he or she has to be protected from others in certain circumstances. Having that pride makes the individual feel secure. Once an individual develops a since of security the third category includes needs, such as sense of belonging and loved. These feelings formatted as a cycle; while an individual feels secure, the feeling of wanting to be love and feeling of being accepted come into place. Consisting with self-esteem, self-esteem is a need for respect, education, and achievement. The last category is need for self-actualization, when an individual have the need to be observed by others. There are those who constantly try to do things to grasp another attention. Self-actualization can start from just seeing others doing really well and the individual would love to be part of the group. He or she will be willing to do anything to receive approval by a certain group. In these days the term “hanging with the jones” is used very loosely for those pretending to be something they are not just to receive self-actualization.

Biological factors that influences the formation of personality

The Biological factors that influence the formation of personality are direct genetic effects and genetic effects through temperament. The biological and environment factors compete against each other to develop a person personality. At times on can be more dominant than the other personality. Without using the two factors, a person cannot develop a normal personality. Genetics play a big part in the personality of each individual, some aspects are based on the way the individual was raised, rather it is with both parent are with single parents. Each parent has their own method on molding their child to be the best in life. Others have no control of the situation if there is a genetic trait of bio pollard in the genes that can be passed down to the child. Keep in mind that biological factors involves genetic material and its influences on the nervous system, these factors would usually determine if a person would respond to life stresses by becoming depressed are being able to stay mindful when put in bad situations.