1. What Personality Theories Try To Do:  To provide a way of organizing the many facts about yourself and about other people.  To explain the differences between individuals.  To provide a set of guidelines to live by. (These will help us to be free of emotional problems and decide how a good, healthy person might respond to situations in life).

2. Theory:  An hypothesis, not proven wrong.  An idea which is supportable.  An idea applicable to a wide variety of situations.  An educational explanation of an occurrence.

3. Personality:  The unique or individual pattern of a person’s life.  Sum total of all that a person is.  Reaction to environment.

4. Jelly Bean Game Select a jelly bean that is your favorite color.

5. ColorDenotesPrediction RedTemperSoon to quarrel with a friend Blue or VioletMoodyWill be unhappy soon WhiteLove unstainedGreat love affair is awaiting GreenEnviousSoon to envy another person in the room BlackBad dispositionWhich must improve immediately. YellowCheerySoon to experience good fortune---maybe tomorrow Brown or pinkVoisySoon to find self in a noisy throng. OrangeChangeablePerson will change mind soon about an important deal in the near future.

6. Describe your Personality Do one of the three experiences described below: 1. Find a picture in a magazine that you fell represents you in some way. Write a paragraph explaining why this picture represents you. 2. One simple experience to help you understand yourself is to think of yourself as an animal. The animal you choose may reflect the char. which you see in yourself. Identify the animal and explain the ways in which the animal represents you as a person. Write a paragraph explaining your answer. 3. Choose a famous person, dead or alive, whom you admire. Identify the person and the qualities in that person that are similar to qualities you possess. In what ways are you like that person or you try to be like that person? Write a paragraph explaining why this picture represents you.