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 Theory Categories
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 #3
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
Direct reinforcement of behavior
Testable theory
Modeling/Imitation
Self-assessment (success, outcomes, etc.)
Cognitive (thinking process)
Personality traits learned/influenced by external factors
Similar things excluded (childhood, genetics)

23. Bobo Doll Experiment
What ideas from the Social Learning Theory did you see with this experiment?

24. Exit Pass
Provide an example of a specific personality trait’s development through behaviorism.
Provide an example of a specific personality trait’s development through the Social Learning Theory.

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

26. 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)

27. 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)