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Henry Murray felt that in addition to our physiological needs, human beings have many emotional and psychological needs.

1.Identify and describe three of Murray's needs.

Understanding is the need to be able to hypothesize, analyze and generalize. Play is the need to have fun and enjoyment.Autonomy is the need to be independent of others, to feel free (Freidman & Schustack, 2012).

2.Explain how these needs help to explain an individual’s personality and behaviors.

ERIKSON

Develop a treatment plan for a client who is struggling with the issue/problems resulting from not developing trust (from the Trust vs. Mistrust stage in Erikson’s theory of personality development). Be sure to use techniques and goals Erikson would use.

DIFFERENCES

After reading Chapter 13, summarize how each element; culture, religion, and ethnicity impacts our personality development. Explain why this information is important to include in any treatment plans you develop.

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Personality Development
Henry Murray’s theory of human needs offers an insight into the source motives and the
means through which the needs can be met. Identifiably, Murray categorized them into two
namely the primary and secondary needs. Power, achievement and intimacy are the needs that
Murray explored in his theory (Zeffane, 76). Murray explained that some of these needs are
regarded as temporal while others are deep rooted in our nature. Therefore, in this discussion, an
insight into needs for power, achievement and intimacy and their role in personality development
will be explored.

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The Need for Achievement
Primarily, humans have the tendency to seek for information and stay at the top regarding
the knowledge about the world and specifically in a certain field. In this way, humans always
search for things or areas that they can achieve success for the purpose of being recognized and
achieving success for overcoming obstacles. Therefore, they are aggressive in questioning to
satisfy their curiosity. With curiosity satisfied, they easily use the information to attain a status in
society through thrilling...


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