PSY 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Karen Horney, Interpersonal Relationship, Gender Role

• School: University of Miami
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 110
• Professor: Ray Winters

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Topic #6: the role of interpersonal relations in personality and emotional health. Question #1: what is the textbook"s de nition of personality: a person"s unique pattern of thinking, their unique emotional qorld, and their unique behavior patterns. Question #2: compare the textbook"s view of personality with karen horney"s. Interpersonal theory of personality: the textbook"s approach relies on specifying characteristics of he individuals standing alone, not in relation to others, as we will be doing. Horney views personality in terms of how we tend to rate to other people. Question #3: what is the ideal-self in her (karen horney) theory: the ideal-self the person you want to be. Question #4: characterize the ideal-self in terms of a person"s goals in life: in general, your goals tell about the person you want to be. Question #5: what feature of the ideal-self is most important to understanding emotional health: that the individual has chosen an ideal-self that has value.