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Personality Psychology  - Psy 258


Course Textbook The PDF version of the text is more complete...I suggest you use that.


Course Syllabus

Course Outline

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Schedule of Readings

Lecture One - Introduction

The Definition(s) of Personality by Mayer

Martin Seligman's What you can change, and what you can't; A guide to self-improvement.  Read Chapter One: What Changes? What Doesn't Change? and take the Human Plasticity Questionnaire.

Introduction chapter in online text.

Lecture Two - Trait/Dispositional Theories


Take the 16pf Personality Test and either the Five Factor Personality Test or
Big Five Personality Test .  Be sure to bring in a printed copy of your results.

Dan McAdams' What do we know when we know a person.  Article about traits and the value and problems using traits to explain personality.

General Trait Theories chapter in online text.

Catell and Big 5 Trait Theories

Gordon Allport chapter in online text.

Lecture Three - Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud chapter in online text

Lecture Four - Carl Jung

Carl Jung chapter in online text

Lecture Five - Alfred Adler

Alfred Adler chapter in online text

Lecture Six - Erik Erikson

Erik Erikson chapter in online text

Lecture Seven - Karen Horney

Karen Horney chapter in online text

Lecture Eight - Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow

Carl Rogers chapter in online text

Abraham Maslow chapter in online text

Lecture Eight - Behaviorism

B.F. Skinner chapter in online text

Lecture Nine - Cognitive Theories

Albert Bandura chapter in online text

Jullian Rotter from Fullerton.edu

Albert Bandura chapter in online text

Martin Seligman and Carol Dweck from wikiversity

Albert Ellis chapter in online text


Additional Course Materials

Biological/Physiological Perspective

Lectures related to Biological/Evolutionary Perspectives

AllPsych Online

Personality Psychology textbook outline


Theorists

Bandura, Albert A. Bandura, D. Ross, & S. A. Ross (1961). Transmission of Aggression Through Imitation of Aggressive Models. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 63, 575-582.

Freud, Anna (1952) Freud, A. (1952). The role of bodily illness in the mental life of children. Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 7, 69-81

Freud, Sigmund: The Anatomy of the Mental Personality From LECTURE XXXI (1932). Source: New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-analysis (1933) originally published by Hogarth Press. Includes Freud's original drawing of the id, ego, and superego.

Lewin, K. (1935): A Dynamic Theory Of Personality From the site: The Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public.

Maslow, A. H. (1943). A Theory of Human Motivation.

Maslow, A. H. (1941). Deprivation, Threat and Frustration.

Rogers, Carl: Some Observations on the Organization of Personality Address of the retiring President of the American Psychological Association the September 1947 Annual Meeting. First published in American Psychologist, 2, 358-368.


Interesting Links

Personality Testing

TED Talk by Brian Little.  Confessions of a passionate introvert.

Personality Test - This test is based on Jung's typology and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI).  Take this test when you are in a normal, good mood and you have at least 30 minutes to spend on it.  Print out results when you are done.

Type Descriptions - TypeLogic by J. Butt, Peronality Page, and 16 Types description.  Go to these sites and find your type.  Read the description and see if it matches your personality.

Big Five Personality Test - This test is based on Costa and McCrae's theory.

Application of MBTI personality types to Fictional Characters.

Poohsonality Tests - There are two poohsonality tests that I like.  http://www.lavasurfer.com/poohsonality/poohsonality.html and http://winniethepooh.disney.co.uk/funtime/poohsonality_test/index.jsp
I am different characters on each.  Have Fun!

How about an Oreo personality test??

Find your Animal Personality.  (I was an Otter...really???)

Theorists

Listen to an NPR story on/with Albert Ellis

Carl Rogers therapy session with Gloria

Albert Ellis therapy session with Gloria


Other Links in Personality

Video - What is personality all about?

Consequences of Dispositional Attributions - Video with Elliot Aronson

Annotated Bibliography

The best way to find your articles is by using Ebscohost (a database program linked to the library website). Go to http://staff.bcc.edu/library and click on Databases. Click on EbscoHost, either on-campus or offcampus access. (You will need a library bar code to access the database from home. It is on the back of your ID card.). The best databases are Psych Articles and Academic Search Premiere. You will need to use the Advanced Search to find articles.  Put in key words related to a topic you are interested in.  Make sure it is related to Personality Psychology. I would suggest you also check “full text” and “scholarly (peer reviewed) journals” in the search criteria.  Additionally, you should put in dates so that you are only searching through artices published since 2000.

An example of an Annotated Bibliography

Application of Theory

Application of Personality Theory with Fictional Characters

Here is an example of how personality theory is applied to the Grinch.

Disney Characters - Wikipedia information

Winnie-the-Pooh Characters - Wikipedia information


Other Resources

Handbook of Modern Personality Theory edited by Oliver P. John, Richard W. Robins, Lawrence A. Pervi 

Personality Theories: An Introduction by Barbara Engler

Personality Theories: Critical Perspectives by Albert Ellis and colleagues

Theories of Personality by Richard Rychman

Introduction to Theories Personality by Robert B. Ewen

APA Formatting

APA Manual - APA Style

Purdue Owl - APA Format

A Guide for Psychology Undergraduate from University of Washington

Mastering APA Style powerpoint presentation

Example of a Reference page
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