1. Personality

2. Prompt #2 In a few words, describe how they act and think.
Your Boss
Your Best Friend
Why would someone want to study things like this?
Spongebob

3. Personality
The consistent, enduring, and unique characteristics of a person
What are examples of these characteristics?

4. Personality Theories Psychoanalytic Behaviorism Social Learning
Cognitive
Humanistic
Trait

5. Purposes of Personality Theories
Organize the many characteristics
Explain differences among individuals
Explore how people conduct their lives
Determine how life can be improved

6. Psychoanalytic Theories
Freud & the Unconscious
Id, Ego, Superego Theory – division of psyche
Id=pleasure principle; needs, drives, instincts, and repressed material
Ego=reality principle; rational, reasoning
Superego=moral principle; source of conscience and high ideals

9. Defense Mechanisms Pg. 380-383
Read, understand, come up with example scenarios for each
Draw ONE image for each of your examples (half page with caption); put name of DM ON THE BACK
Check in, then grab Defense Mechanism sheet (will be HW if not finished)

10. Defense Mechanisms
Identifying Scenarios

11. Personality Tests Rorschach Inkblots TAT Both projective tests
Meant to analyze unconscious feelings

12. Rorschach Inkblots
Write what you see in the inkblots

17. Carl Jung
Personal vs. collective unconscious (inherited instincts, urges, and memories of all humans)
Archetypes—inherited idea, based on ancestors’ experiences, that shape one’s perception

18. Alfred Adler
How parents treat their kids determines personality or “lifestyle”
Birth Order

19. Prompt #2
Have you noticed the ideas of birth order in your own family? Explain.
Do you agree with Adler’s ideas of birth order in general and the information in this article? Explain.

20. Behaviorism & the Social Learning Theory

21. As you read…
Highlight/underline key concepts or terms; summarize in a few words every paragraph or two
Stop after “Behaviorism” section
Summarize how this theory says personality develops
Finish reading

22. Social Learning Theory
Behaviorism
Social Learning Theory
Actions of others/environment directly affect you
Measurable
Role models
Imitation
Self-assess (outcome, success, etc.)
Environment factors affecting behavior
Leave out (unconscious, childhood, genetics, etc.)

23. Bobo Doll Experiment

24. Media Violence & Aggression
Read the article & answer the corresponding questions

25. Social Learning Theory
Behaviorism
Social Learning Theory
Reinforcements (rewards & punishments)
Present environment
Measurable (external factors)
Modeling
Self-assessment of past experiences
Environment affects traits (people)
Reinforcement
Similar flaws (genetics, unconscious)

26. Behaviorism Social Learning Theory
-Reinforcers
-Pragmatic (logical, straight-forward)
-Can be tested and proven (measurable)
-Modeling
-Self-analysis (success, outcome, etc.)
-More variables to assess
-similar flaws (unobservable factors left out)
-actions/
behaviors
-similar goals
-learning (idea of reinforcement)