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Upon completing this chapter, you will be able to:
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1. Define the term personality. |
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2. Compare Allport's trait theory with the "five-factor" trait theory. |
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3. Describe the results of efforts to validate personality trait theory. |
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4. Distinguish among Freud's concepts of conscious mind, the preconscious mind, and the unconscious mind as part of his psychoanalytic theory. |
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5. Distinguish among the id, ego, and superego in Freud's psychoanalytic theory. |
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6. Distinguish among the processes Freud referred to as displacement, sublimation, and identification. |
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7. List and describe Freud's five psychosexual stages of development. |
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8. Discuss Jung's criticisms of Freud's theory; distinguish between extroversion and introversion and between personal unconscious and the collective unconscious. |
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9. Discuss the roles of inferiority feelings, social interest, and goals in Adler's personality theory. |
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10. Explain the role of anxious insecurity in the personality theory of Horney; describe Horney's criticisms of Freud's view of women. |
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11. Discuss Bandura's social learning theory, including the roles of cognition in personality development. |
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12. Discuss the alternative explanations to trait theories called situationism and interactionism. |
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13. Identify the basic concepts of humanistic theory, including inner-directedness and subjectivity. |
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14. Distinguish between the "self" and the "ideal self" and understand the importance of congruence and conditions of worth in Rogers' personality theory. |
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15. Identify the characteristics of a self-actualized person according to Maslow. |
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16. Compare and contrast humanistic, psychoanalytic, and social learning theories of personality. |
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17. Discuss the ways in which interviews and observational methods are used to assess personality. |
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18. Discuss the uses of projective personality tests and distinguish between the TAT and the Rorschach Inkblot Test. |
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19. Discuss the use of objective tests such as the MMPI-2. |
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20. Discuss the usefulness and accuracy of personality tests. |
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21. (From the Application section) Describe the role of situational influences in everyday life. |