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Chapter 10: Personality


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Chapter 10: Personality

  1. The Nature of Personality
  2. Personality Theories
    1. Trait Theories
      1. Sheldon's Somatotype Theory
        1. Endomorph
        2. Mesomorph
        3. Ectomorph
      2. Five Factor Model
        1. Neuroticism
        2. Extraversion
        3. Openness to experience
        4. Agreeableness
        5. Conscientiousness
      3. Culture and Personality Traits
      4. Evaluating Trait Explanations
    2. Psychoanalytic Theories
      1. Freud's Theory
        1. The role of the unconscious
        2. The structure of personality
          1. id
          2. ego
          3. superego
        3. The development of personality
          1. oral stage
          2. phallic stage
          3. latency stage
          4. genital stage
      2. Psychoanalytic Revisionists and Dissenters
        1. Horney's Sociocultural modification
        2. Jung's depth psychology
        3. Adler's Individual Psychology
          1. striving for superiority
          2. compensation
          3. overcompensation
          4. Inferiority complex
          5. superiority complex
      3. Evaluation of Psychoanalytic Theories
    3. Behavioral Theories
      1. Skinner's behaviorism
      2. Evaluating the behavioral theories
    4. Cognitive Social Learning Theories
      1. Mischel's findings with respect to delay of gratification
      2. Bandura's findings with respect to imitation
      3. Evaluating the Cognitive Social Learning Theory
    5. Humanistic Theories
      1. Rogers
        1. The self
        2. Unconditional positive regard
        3. Fully functioning person
      2. Maslow
      3. Evaluating Humanistic theories
    6. Comparing Personality Theories
      1. What is the relative importance of biological factors versus experience?
      2. What forces drive personality?
      3. How consistent or variable is personality across situations?
      4. Is the personality theory optimistic or pessimistic about human nature?
  3. Personality Assessment
    1. Self-Report Tests
      1. Constructing self-report tests
      2. The MMPI
      3. The five factor personality instruments
      4. Evaluating self-report tests
    2. Projective Tests
      1. The Rorschach Inkblot Test
      2. The Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
    3. Behavioral Assessment

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