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Chapter 10: Personality


Learning Objectives

Chapter 10: Personality

  1. Define the term personality.
  2. describe the approach to personality taken by the trait theorists, and identify the components of the five-factor model.
  3. Distinguish between individualism and collectivism.
  4. Discuss the basic ideas underlying the psychoanalytic perspective.
  5. Distinguish among the Freudian concepts of id, ego and superego.
  6. Trace the course of psychosexual development according to Freud, identifying the major events at each stage.
  7. Distinguish among the theories of Horney, Jung, and Adler, and describe their differences from Freud's approach to psychoanalysis.
  8. Distinguish between the behavioristic view of Skinner and the cognitive social learning approach of Bandura and Mischel.
  9. Distinguish between the humanistic perspectives of Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow.
  10. Relate the differing personality approaches to the following issues: biological versus learned factors, the forces that drive personality, the consistency of personality, the role of the unconscious, and the degree of optimism or pessimism regarding human nature.
  11. Distinguish between self-report tests and projective personality tests; identify examples of each.
  12. Discuss the approach taken in the behavioral assessment of personality.

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