"Knowing your character"

     Every human being is essentially different, so that both the nature, character or someone different character. Some say that the nature / character / character a person is influenced by genetic factors or environmental factors and even the person's date of birth or zodiac.


      For that, I menciba questions that might just give information on whether the answer is the same as your character. Because any questions / tests and any assessment of people who know us is ourselves.

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Brief biography, Albert Bandura

     Albert Bandura was born on December 4, 1925, in the small town of Mundare southern Alberta, Canada. He went to primary and secondary schools that are simple, but with average results are very satisfactory. After finishing high school, he worked at the company's road excavation Alaska Highway in Yukon.

     He received a bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of British of Columbia in 1949. Then he entered the University of Iowa, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1952. Only after that he became very influential in the behaviorist tradition and learning theory.

     When he Iowa, he met Virginia Varns, a nursing school instructor. They later married and had two daughters. After graduation, he menerukan education to post-doctoral level in the Wichita Guidance Center in Wichita, Kansas.

     In 1953, he began teaching at Stanford University. Here, he then worked with one of his proteges, Richard Walters. The first book titled the results of their cooperation Adolescent Aggression, published in 1959. Unfortunately, Walters died young due to a motorcycle accident.

Bandura became president of the APA in 1973, and received APA Award for his services in the Distinguished Scientific Contributions 1980.

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Brief biography, Erich Fromm

     Erich Fromm was born in 1900 in Frankfurt, Germany. His father worked sbagai businessman and, according to Erich, his personality was somewhat "erratic". Her mother was often depressed. In other words, Erik's childhood was not too pleasant.

     As families Jung, Erich Fromm family is a religious family, in this case the Jewish religion. As an adult, Erich declared himself an atheist mystics.

     In his autobiography, Beyond the Chains of Illusions, Erich tells two important events in his youth who later became the starting point of his life. The first event was his introduction to a relative of his family.

     "Maybe she was 25 years old, she was very beautiful, interesting and a painter, first painter I know. I remember that time he was engaged, but later dispersed; I remember he always accompanied his father a widower. His father is old, unattractive and rather quiet (muingkin my assessment is too biased because of jealousy). One day, I heard something very surprising: his father died and some time later he committed suicide and left a piece of a will that he wanted to be buried beside her father. "

     The second event is more awesome than the first event, namely World War I. At that time, he was 14 years old and forced to witness the severity of the impact of nationalism. All around, there was nothing but cry, "We are the largest" (We represent the German people). Hatred, "war hysteria", haunted him, and indeed it is.

     Erich, find the light on the incident from the writings of Sigmund Freud and Karl Marx.

Erich, received his Ph.D. from Heidelberg in 1922, and after that a career as a psychotherapist. He moved to America in 1934-period when the escape from Germany became very commonplace. In America, he lived in New York and this is where he met with thinkers escape.

     Towards the end of his career, he moved to Mexico City to teach. While in Mexico, he conducted various research on the relationship of economic classes dnegan personality types. Erich Fromm died in 1980 in Switzerland.

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Brief Biography, Hans Eysenck

     Hans Eysenck was born in Germany on March 4, 1916. His father is an actor and her mother divorced when he was 2 years old. Eysenck and cared for by his grandmother until the age of 18 years.

     At that time, the Nazis came to power, and as a Jewish sympathizer, Hans was threatened. He then moved to England to continue his education. He received a doctorate in psychology from the University of London in 1940.

     During World War II, he worked as a psychologist at the emergency of war. It was here, he did research on the validity of psychiatric diagnoses. The study is then made ​​strongly opposed to psychology clinics throughout his career.

   After the war, he taught at the University of London and became chairman of psychology at The Institute of Psychiatry in Bethlehem Royal Hospital.

   Hans, has written 75 books and about 700 articles, and is considered one of the most respected writers of psychology. Eysenck retired in 1983 and continued working until he died on September 4, 1997.

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Brief biography, Ludwig Binswanger

     Ludwig Binswanger was born on 13 April 1881, at Kreuzlinge, Switzerland in a family that has a strong tradition of medicine and psychiatry. His grandfather adalalah founder Belleve Sanatorium in Kreuzlingen in 1857. His father, Robert, is director of the Sanatorium as Anna O was treated there. His uncle, Otto, is the inventor of a disease similar to Alzheimer's later known as Binswanger disease, his uncle was one of the doctors who take care of Friedrich Nietzsche.

     Ludwig Binswanger earned his medical degree from the University of Zurich in 1907. He studied under Carl Jung and Jung's assistant in the Freudian Society. Like Jung, he is also more affected by Eugen Bleuler, who coined the term schizophrenia.

    Jung introduced the Binswanger to Freud in 1907. In 1911, Binswanger was appointed medical director Belleuve Sanatorium. The following year, he fell ill and had a visit from Freud who rarely stay in Vienna. Their friendship runs until Freud's death in 1939.

    In the early 1920's, Binswanger is excited at the thought of Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger and Martin Buber. This then makes him more interested in the perspective of existential rather than Freudian perspective. However, we can say in the 1930s as the early emergence of existential therapy. In 1943, he published a major book entitled Grundformen und menschlichen Erkennynis Daseins, which until then had not been translated into English.

In 1956, Binswanger ceased to be director of the Sanatorium after occupying that position for 45 years. He continues to conduct studies

and write until his death in 1966.

Sources: George Boeree

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Brief Biography, Abraham Maslow

     Abraham Harold Maslow was born on 1 Aprik 1908 in Brooklyn, New York, as the eldest of seven brothers. Both parents are uneducated Jew who immigrated from Russia. 

  

     Because really hope their children succeed in the new world, his parents forced Maslow and his siblings study hard in order to achieve success in academics. No wonder childhood and adolescence, Maslow became lone child and spent his days with the book. 

For the sake of the wishes of her parents, first Maslow studied law at City College of New York (CCNY). After three semesters studying there, he moved to Cornell then back to CCNY. He married his cousin,     Bertha Goodman, and this marriage against the wishes of her parents. Maslow and Bertha had two daughters. 

     He and Bertha moved to Wisconsin to get into the University of Wisconsin. This is where his interest in the psychological field began to grow, thus dramatically changing the way academic. A year after graduating, he returned to New York to work with E. L. Thorndike in Coolumbia where he carried out research on human sexuality. 

     He began teaching full time at Brooklyn College. In this period he was hanging out with some European thinkers who immigrated to the United States, particularly to Brooklyn, due to the war that raged there. Among these thinkers were Adler, Fromm, Horney and Gestalt psychologists and Freudian. 

In 1951, Maslow served as chairman of the psychology department at Brandels for 10 years. This is where he met Kurt and began writing his own theoretical works. Here, he also began to develop the concept of humanistic psychology - the concept which for him is much more important than theoretical efforts. 

He spent his retirement in California, until finally he had a heart attack and died on June 8, 1970.

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