🗓 Unit 11 - Personality

Summary

Learning Objectives

• Define personality
• Describe early theories about personality development
• Describe the assumptions of the psychodynamic perspective on personality development
• Discuss the core differences between major theories on personality

Prepare for Today

Readings

• What Is Personality?

• Freud and the Psychodynamic Perspective

• Neo-Freudians: Adler, Erikson, Jung, and Horney

• Learning Approaches

• Humanistic Approaches

• Biological Approaches

• Trait Theorists

• Cultural Understandings of Personality

• Personality Assessment

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Lecture Slides

Takeaways

• Personality psychologists approach questions of what makes an individual different (or similar) by examining patterns of thoughts and behaviors

Today’s Assignment

Personality and Therapy Activity

• Watch: the video clip (below) until 2:19.
• Practice: Download the therapy worksheet and answer the questions using what you learned in the reading and lesson.
• Submit: Go to Canvas and upload your worksheet to the Unit 11 Activity.