Personality

=Personality= This unit asks students to identify and contrast the various personality theorists and their attempts to describe human behavior and personality development. Below are some highlights for you. Additionally, there are links to most class handouts for this unit.

1. Several perspectives eist to explain the development of human personality, which is the distinctive and relatively stable pattern of behaviors, thoughts, motives, and emotions that characterize the individual. 2. Psychologists study personality adjustment and try to understand why some people handle life's experiences and other fail.
 * Enduring Understandings:**

1. What are the major schools of personality theory and how do they compare? 2. How and why do psychologists define and study personality? 3. How does personality affect human behavior and development?
 * Essential Questions:**

personality, Freud, unconscious, id, pleasure principle, super ego, ego, reality principle, defense mechanism, personal unconscious, collective unconscious, archetypes, shadow, persona, anima/animus, introversion, extroversion, Adler, inferiority, free will, Horney, insecurity, basic hostility/basic anxiety, coping mechanism, Allport, Cattell, Eysenck, Big Five, behaviorism, Skinner, reinforcement, Bandura, self-efficacy, Maslow, hierarchy of needs, Rogers, self, positive regard, conditions of worth
 * Key Content/Vocabulary (Not a comprehensive list!):**

//Intro to Psych// Modules 19 & 20
 * Resources:**



Lesson 1: Introduction to Personality Psychology

Lesson 2: Freud's Psychoanalytic Theory Homework: Psychoanalytic Theories (Available in class only)

Lesson 3: Behavioral and Humanistic Personality Theory Handout: Locus of Control Scale / Survey of Behaviorist & Humanistic Views (Available in class only)

Lesson 4: Trait Theories

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