Assignment:
Psychological Approach to "How the Grinch Stole Christmas"
In the story, "How the Grinch Stole Christmas", the character, the Grinch, has a rather distinct personality. Toward the end of the story, we see a drastic transformation in his personality. Here are the tasks:
1- Explain the personality of the Grinch by using the concepts or terms from these two psychological approaches:
Sigmund Freud's Psychoanalytic Approach Applied to the Grinch
Freudian Concepts:
o Death Instincts
o Projection
o Oral Aggressive or Sadistic
o Id
Skinner and Pavlov's Behavioral Approach Applied to the Grinch
Behavioral Concepts:
o Operant conditioning
o Classical conditioning
o Positive reinforcement
o Negative reinforcement
2. Explain how your approaches would account for this individual's personality transformation, and how those conceptualizations would be similar or different.
3. Note the behaviors the individual exhibits that led you to your conclusions.
4. Compare and contrast the approaches, noting how their ideas would be similar and different in their conceptualization of the Grinch's personality and its transformation