The Principles of Personology

• The 5 PRINCIPLES of PERSONOLOGY are?

  1. Personality is rooted in the Brain
  2. Involves the idea of Tension Reduction
  3. An individual's personality continues to develop over time
  4. Personality changes and progresses
  5. Emphasized the uniqueness of each person while recognizing similarities among all people
• The 1st principle of Personology is that Personality is rooted in the Brain
• The 2nd principle of Personology is that it involves the idea of Tension Reduction
• The 3rd principle of Personology is that an individual's personality continues to develop over time
• The 4th principle of Personology involves the idea that personality changes and progresses
• The 5th principle of Personology emphasized the uniqueness of each person while recognizing similarities among all people
• FIRST PRINCIPLE: Personality is rooted in the Brain

  The individual’s cerebral physiology guides and governs every aspect of the personality
• SECOND PRINCIPLE: Involves the Idea of Tension Reduction

  Murray agreed with Freud and other theorists that people act to reduce Physiological and Psychological Tension, but this does not mean we strive for a Tension-Free State
• SECOND PRINCIPLE: Involves the Idea of Tension Reduction

  it is a process of acting to reduce tension that is satisfying, according to Murray, rather than the attainment of condition free of all tension
• SECOND PRINCIPLE: Involves the Idea of Tension Reduction

  Murray believed that a Tension-Free Existence is itself a Source of Distress
• THIRD PRINCIPLE: An individual's personality continues to develop over time

  Is constructed of all the events that occur during the course of that person's life. Therefore, the study of person's past is of great importance
• FOURTH PRINCIPLE: Personality changes and progresses

  the idea that personality changes and progresses; emphasize on the uniqueness of each person
• FIFTH PRINCIPLE: Emphasized the uniqueness of each person while recognizing similarities among all people

  As Murray saw it, an individual human being is like no other person, like some other people, and like every other person