Ms
Mrs. Pries/AP Psychology
Chapter 15: Personality
Unit Outline
Learning Objectives:
1. to examine the psychoanalytic perspective on personality, and to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of Freud’s ideas
2. to introduce and evaluate the humanistic perspective
3. to present the trait perspective and to examine the consistency of behavior over time and across situations
4. to examine the social-cognitive perspective, including recent research on personal control, learned helplessness, and optimism
5. to discuss psychology’s study of the self, and to evaluate evidence for non-conscious information processing
Terms to Understand, Encode, and Store for Successful Retrieval – 34 total: (Each item should be placed on its own note card with the term on the front, the definition on the back, along with an example from your own studies or experience)
Personality, free association, psychoanalysis, unconscious, id, ego, superego, psychosexual stages, Oedipus complex, identification, fixation, defense mechanisms, regression, reaction formation, projection, rationalization, displacement, projective test, Thematic Apperception Test (TAT), Rorschach Inkblot test, collective unconscious, self-actualization, unconditional positive regard, self-concept, trait, personality inventory, Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI), social-cognitive perspective, reciprocal determinism, external/internal locus of control, learned helplessness, positive psychology, self-esteem, individualism, collectivism, terror-management theory
Psychologists/People to Know:
Sigmund Freud, Alfred Adler, Karen Horney, Carl Jung, Abraham Maslow, Carl Rogers, Hans and Sybil Eyesenck, Albert Bandura, Martin Seligman
Daily Activities and Due Dates:
• 11/09/09 Day One/pgs. 575-586
o BR: Tell us about your personality: Describe your own personality in twenty words of phrases. Where do you think your personality is “housed”? How did your personality develop?
o Free Association Activity
o Notes + Discussion: Personality and Freud
• 11/10/09 Day Two/pgs. 575-586
o BR: Which Freudian concept best describes your personality: id, ego, or superego? Explain your answer.
o Activity: Psychoanalysis of The Cat in the Hat
o HW: reading, note cards, study questions
• 11/12/09 Day Three/pgs. 575-586
o BR: Cite a personal example of a time when you made a “Freudian slip”
o Notes: Defense Mechanisms
o Defense Mechanisms skits
• 11/13/2009 Day Four/pgs. 581-586
o BR: Consider the following quote. To what extent is it an argument against repression? “During the Holocaust, many children…were forced to endure the unendurable. For those who continue to suffer [the] pain is still present, many years later, as real as it was on he day it occurred.’
o Reading Activity and Scored Discussion: Evaluating Freud’s Work and the Neo-Freudians
• 11/16/09 Day Five/pgs. 581-586
o BR: Take a look at the projective tests on the overhead. What do you think your interpretations of them say about your personality?
o Notes/discussion: The Humanistic Perspective
o Hand out graphic organizer
o Writing Prompt: Have you had someone in your life that accepted you unconditionally? Do you think this person helped you to know yourself better, or to develop a better image of yourself?
• 11/17/09 Day Six/pgs. 591-599
o BR: Think about the traits that describe you. What are they? Are these traits stable, or have they developed over time?
o Notes/Discussion: The Trait Perspective
o HW: Take the Keirsey Temperament Sorter (), due on: _______________.
• 11/18/09 Day Seven/pgs. 600-606
o BR: Do you consider yourself to be a Type A or Type B Personality? Explain your answer.
o Personality quiz
o Social-Cognitive Perspective Notes/Learned Helplessness Demo.
• 11/20/09 Day Eight/pgs. 607-616
o BR: What is the difference between individualism and collectivism? Which characterizes the culture of the US?
o Quick Notes
o Documentary + Reflection Questions: Feel Good About Failure
• 11/23/09 Day Nine
o BR: List three things you need to review for tomorrow’s exam
o Go over graphic organizer
o Review for Unit Exam
• 11/24/09 Day Ten
o Personality Unit Exam
• 11/20/09 Day Eleven
Unit Project: Applying Personality Theory to How the Grinch Stole Christmas, due on: _______________________________
Study Questions
Introducing Personality
1. What is personality?
2. How does the study of personality differ from that of other areas of psychology?
The Psychoanalytic Perspective
1. How did Freud’s search for the psychological roots of nervous disorders lead to his study of the unconscious?
2. What is psychoanalysis?
3. What roles do the id, ego, and superego play in Freudian personality structure?
4. What are the stages and characteristics of the Freudian psychosexual stages of development?
5. What is maladaptive behavior?
6. How do defense mechanisms operate?
7. How are projective tests used to assess personality?
8. How reliable and valid are projective tests?
9. What are the major ideas of the neo-Freudians?
The Humanistic Perspective
1. Describe the humanistic perspective on personality and discuss the basic ideas of Maslow and Rogers.
The Trait Perspective
1. Trace the history of the trait theories of personality.
2. What are the assessment techniques associated with the trait perspective?
3. Identify the Big Five personality factors and discuss recent research findings regarding them.
4. Discuss the research findings regarding the consistency of behavior over time and across situations.
The Social-Cognitive Perspective
1. Describe reciprocal determinism and give three examples of it.
2. How do social-cognitive researchers study behavior?
Exploring the Self/The Modern Unconscious Mind
1. Discuss how culture affects one’s sense of self, including research findings on differences between individualist and collectivist cultures.
2. Explain the modern concept of the unconscious mind.
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