Unit 10- Personality
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AP Psychology
Unit 10: Personality
5 - 7 % of the AP Exam
Unit Goals: Check the box when you have mastered the goal. This will help you when you study for the unit assessment, AP exam, and complete the left hand side letter to yourself.
Compare and contrast the major theories and approaches to explaining personality (psychoanalytic, humanist, cognitive, trait, social cognition, behavioral).
Describe and compare research methods (case studies and surveys) that psychologists use to investigate personality.
Identify frequently used assessment strategies (the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory [MMPI], the Thematic Apperception Test [TAT]), and evaluate relative test quality based on reliability and validity of the instruments .
Speculate how cultural context can facilitate or constrain personality development, especially as it relates to self-concept (collectivistic versus individualistic cultures) .
Identify key contributors to personality theory (Alfred Adler, Albert Bandura, Paul Costa and Robert McCrae, Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Abraham Maslow, Carl Rogers).
Unit Overview: In this section of the course, students explore major theories of how humans develop enduring patterns of behavior and personal characteristics that influence how others relate to them . The unit also addresses research methods used to assess personality.
Unit Vocabulary:
Personality
Free association
Psychoanalysis
Unconscious
Preconscious
Id
Ego
Superego
Psychosexual stages
Oedipus complex
Identification
Fixation
Defense mechanisms
Repression
Regression
Reaction formation
Projection
Rationalization
Displacement
Sublimation
Projective test
Thematic apperception test
Rorschach inkblot test
Collective unconscious
Trait
Personality inventory
Minnesota multiphasic personality inventory
Empirically derived test
Self actualization
Unconditional positive regard
Self-concept
Self-esteem
Self-serving bias
Individualism
Collectivism
Reciprocal determinism
Personal control
External locus of control
Internal locus of control
Learned helplessness
Positive psychology
People:
Gordon Allport
Hans Eysenck
Raymond Cattell
Carl Jung
Alfred Adler
Walter Mischel
Martin Seligman
Paul Costa & Robert McCrae
Sigmund Freud
Karen Horney
Studies:
Rotter, J.B. : Generalized expectancies for internal versus external control of reinforcement
Triandis, H. Contempo, R. Villareal, M, Asai, M. & Lucca, N. : Individualism vs. Collectivism.
Freud, A. The ego and the mechanisms of defense
Rorschach, H. Ink blot test
Murray, H.A.: Explorations in Personal​