Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- The schools of thought in psychology that have been concerned with personality development and assessment.
- Their own notions of personality as a disposition.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Cite specific textual and research-based evidence to support a holistic definition of personality.
- Summarize complex theories of personality into simpler, yet still accurate, terms.
- Assess one's own personality using multiple assessments that follow multistep procedures, analyzing the results in light of research presented in the text.
- Consider the perspectives of various researchers and theorists to determine their reasons for constructing their particular theories of personality.
- Synthesize information and research from multiple sources to develop a coherent understanding of personality as a disposition.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- There are differences among the perspectives on and theories of personality.
- There are ways in which each perspective on personality prefers to assess personality.
- It is important to attend to issues in reliability and validity when assessing personality.
Vocabulary
- psychodynamic theory
- psychosexual theory of personality
- development
- id
- ego
- superego
- fixation
- humanistic theory
- unconditional positive regard
- inferiority complex
- superiority complex
- archetypes
- collective unconscious
- projective tests
- trait theory
- Big Five personality traits
- Eysenck's personality trait theory
- factor analysis
- ego defense mechanisms
- self actualization
- self concept
- self esteem
- unconscious
- preconscious
