Pros: Leads to trying harder
Negatives: Overcompensation

-Later found Humanism
-Ideas of Birth Order-impacts our personality

Birth Order
-where you are born in a family can have an effect on your personality
Oldest: responsible, mature, high achiever
Middle: easy going, friendly
Youngest: immature, funny, baby-like
Only Child: much like the oldest, can have difficulties sharing
Oldest/Only's should marry "Middles"

First Born Traits:
energetic, logical, ambitious, enterprising, scholarly

Middle Born #1:
loner, quiet, shy, impatient, uptight

Middle Born #2:
outgoing, friendly, laid-back, patient

-Middle's love to stand out

Last Born Traits:
risky takers, idealists, good sense of humor, hard working, immature, attention seeking, secretive, sensitive
-tend to go against the norm
-make the biggest stirs in life
-know no boundaries
-youngest should marry "onlys"

Only Children:
mature faster, get along well with older people, responsible, self-centered, perfectionists, attention seekers, use adult language, prefer adult company, have difficulty sharing

Twins:
Common Leader Traits-
resemble first borns, aggressive, loud, outspoken, opinionated, intolerant
Common Follower Traits-
resemble shy middle child, shy, longer, quiet, blend into the background, undefiant

Variable that impacts birth older roles:
Parents- marital status, parenting style, critical eye of parent, parent's birth order, how strict the parent is
Gender- double birth order (all girls or all boys)
Separate Families- more than a five year gap, start a "new" family
Adoption/Remarriage- bumped either up or down on birth order scale, all depends on age at the time and where other kids fall
Death of Parent/Sibling- bump a child either up or down, have different effects when a parent dies, "Ghost children"

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs- Humanistic Perspective (people are mostly good)

Carl Rogers- 

Social Theorists:

Albert Bandura: Bobo Doll, social modeling- learn from those around us

Cognitive Theorists:

Julian Rotter-

Trait Theorists:
Gordon Allport:

Cattell:
16 traits (done by factor analysis)