Jung, Adler and Horney

Carl Jung:

Came up with the idea or theory of having Collective Unconscious. Collective Unconscious in a short summary is the ideas from everyone in humanity mixed together. Meaning, different cultures go through experiences that most know about. This idea becomes apart of our unconscious thoughts because of things we hear or see in general. Collective Unconscious is the journey you take in life, but actually turned into repressed thoughts. It's the different memories, thoughts and ideas. You could even express the thoughts as urges from the past. Archetypes are models that were given in life. They're apart of collective unconscious. The models could be anything such as heroes in different cultures or even basic human behaviors. Archetypes is shaping and transforms your conscious from experiences you've been through in life or prehaps the ones you wish to seek.

Alfred Adler:
Alfred came up with the insight of the inferiority complex theory. The theory states that everyone is born being inferior. Not knowing what to do as a child or knowing the way to act makes children helpless. As the child starts realizing the feelings they have, they begin to strive to become like their parents or guardians. When surrounded by more powerful adults that are capable of being successful, the child begins to want the powers they have. Although Adler says every child has an inferior, not all children develop a inferiority complex.

Karen Horney:
Karen Horney had different views when it came to Sigmund Freud's theory. Within her theory, she denied that women married for the penis, but instead stated men had womb envy. Womb envy is where men need to have children to live on their legacy. Karen shows that men have womb envy in the matter of wanting to care and nurture for a descendant of their own.  She stated that Freud's views on penis envy was women's jealousy of men's power in the world.

Psychological Experiment

Psychology from our knowledge is the study of human behavior, but each of us have a different understand of what psychology includes. While researching I came about a story called The Stanford Prison Experiment. The experiment in a summary has to do with 24 college students (all male) who volunteered for a prisoner/ guard position. The volunteers were split up by a flip of a coin and seperated. One group were the guards, the other were the prisoners.

During the experiment, the prisoners were sent back to their homes where they would wait. Police officers were sent to retrieve the inmates and bring them to the jail. Seeking the full treatment, the inmates were told to sanitize by rinsing themselves with a spray in case of lice or other germs.

As the guards began the process, they were told to humilate the inmates by making them wear dresses such as these. Along with the dresses, they were given a chain to wear around their right ankle. They wore rubber shoes and nylon stockings over their hair. The chain represented the actually handcuffs they would wear. The stocking was to represent having a bald head and taking away their individuality. Not all of these things would happen in an actually prison, but the point was to show that real prisoners are humilated with the process they go through.

The quards were told to do what they thought guards did. When the prisoners began to rebel, the guards got more violent.Punishment could include: push-ups of any given number, solitary confindment (a small closet) humiliation from inmates, ext... 36 hours into the experiment, a prisoner was dignosed with acute emotional disturbance. He was removed from the experiment. By the sixth day, the experiment was ended. The prisoners were interviewed and all stated that they started losing their identies. In the end there were already 2 inmates who suffereed from emotional disturbances and guards that had a higher rate of temper.

The whole point of the experiement was to monitor the behavior changes within the inmates along with the guards. Each volunteer was given 15 dollars a day for however long he could last.


The reason I found an interest in this article was because it has to deal with everything we've been learning during both this and the past week. This experiment wouldn't be an ethical experiment because it can cause both physical and emotional harm. Even though the prisoners were on a volunteer notice the experiment isn't completely ethical. This experiement also deals with cognitive, behavioral and learning persepectives.