This post concludes my assignment. Throughout these posts we learned about several extremely bright and influential people and their theories, and what they believe! I hope it was as enriching for you as it was for me. We learned about Freud and his theory about Id, Ego and Superego and helping us understand our unconscious thoughts and desires. We learned about The Big Five and what that says about our personalities. Carl Jung taught us about our shadow and how we can accept the undesirable parts of who we are and when we embrace the things that we are ashamed of, we can change. Some of these theories are outrageous and people might not agree with them, which is okay. The purpose in this blog was to create more awareness. My wish is that it helped in creating a sense of awareness and to point out that we are all struggling. It is okay! We can heal and help and love and be empathetic, have unconditional positive regard, and listen to those who need to be heard.
It's the first day of preschool a father drops his daughter off, she cries hysterically. A child is asked to wait ten minutes to eat a cookie, and if they can wait, they can have two cookies. The child started to draw a square around the cookie. A teenage girl is being offered a drink at her first party, she declines the offer. What do these situations have in common? They are the beginning of a lifetime of learning how to self-regulate. Psychologist, Walter Mischel studied self-regulation,and he teaches us that we are able to control who we are as people and how we react. In addition, Mischel does not believe in labels--he believes that a person's behavior is bast predicted from the understanding of who that person is, the current situation and the interactions between them. Mischel teaches Self-Regulation strategies so that people can understand how to delay gratification and to be the kind of person one would like to be. In this post, we will...
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