Psychology Theories

Paper Outline: roughly 8 pages on background roughly 13 on theory Instructions: illustrate your theory of why people behave the way they do as well as illustrate the process in which people make changes. You should select a famous individual to use as a case study to demonstrate the validity of your theory. I’d encourage you to select an individual who has much biographical information available to use as illustrations of the key concepts of your theory. You should also use peer-reviewed sources to support your theory. In other words, ‘theory’ does not imply ‘educated guess’ but rather it implies a potential explanation supported by scholarly evidence. in other words- explain: why do people change. what is the process they go through. what’s your theory as to why psychotherapy works. Theories we’ve gone over in class thus far: Adler Cognitive Behavioral Affective Jung Rogers Freud