1. Richard Griggs Psychology: A Concise Introduction, 3rd Edition
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Chapter 8: Personality Theories and Assessment
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2. Chapter 8: Personality Theories and Assessment
I. The Psychoanalytic Approach to Personality
A. Freudian Classical Psychoanalytic Theory of Personality
1. Freud’s Three Levels of Awareness
2. Freud’s Three-Part Personality Structure
3. Freud’s Psychosexual Stage Theory
4. Evaluation of Freud’s Psychoanalytic Theory of Personality

3. Chapter 8: Personality Theories and Assessment
I. The Psychoanalytic Approach to Personality, cont.
B. Neo-Freudian Theories of Personality
1. Jung’s Collective Unconscious
2. Adler’s Striving for Superiority
3. Horney and the Need for Security

4. Chapter 8: Personality Theories and Assessment
II. The Humanistic Approach and the Social-Cognitive Approach to Personality
A. The Humanistic Approach to Personality
1. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
2. Rogers’s Self Theory
B. The Social-Cognitive Approach to Personality
1. Bandura’s Self-System
2. Rotter’s Locus of Control
3. Self-Perception

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III. Trait Theories of Personality and Personality Assessment
A. Trait Theories of Personality
1. The Number and Kind of Personality Traits
2. Eysenck’s Three-Factor Theory
3. The Five Factor Model of Personality
B. Personality Assessment
1. Personality Inventories
2. Projective Tests