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Chapter 13: Personality

Chapter Outline

What is Personality?

The Psychodynamic Perspective
Freud’s Psychoanalytic Theory
Psychic Energy and Mental Events
The Structure of Personality
Conflict, Anxiety, and Defense
Psychosexual Development
Research on Psychoanalytic Theory
Research Close-Up: Using Neuropsychology to Study Unconscious Psychodynamics
Evaluating Psychoanalytic Theory
Freud’s Legacy: Neoanalytic and Object Relations Approaches
The Humanistic Perspective
Carl Rogers’s Self Theory
The Self
The Need for Positive Regard
Fully Functioning Persons
Evaluating Humanistic Theories
Trait and Biological Perspectives
Cattell’s Sixteen Personality Factors
The Five Factor Model
Eysenck’s Extraversion-Stability Model
Traits and Behavior Prediction
Biological Foundations of Personality Traits
Personality and the Nervous System
Behavior Genetics and Personality
Evolutionary Approaches
The Stability of Personality Traits
Evaluating the Trait Approach
Psychological Frontiers: Personality and Health
Social Cognitive Theories
Julian Rotter: Expectancy, Reinforcement Value, and Locus of Control
Locus of Control
Albert Bandura: Social Learning and Self-Efficacy
Self-Efficacy
Applications of Psychological Science: Increasing Self-Efficacy Through Systematic Goal-Setting
Walter Mischel and Yuichi Shoda: The Cognitive-Affective Personality System
Encoding Strategies
Expectancies and Beliefs
Goals and Values
Affects (Emotions)
Self-Regulatory Processes and Competencies
Personality Assessment
Interviews
Behavioral Assessment
Remote Behavior Sampling
Personality Scales
Projective Tests
Rorschach Inkblots
Thematic Apperception Test
Personality Theory and Personality Assessment