1. Copyright © 2007 Allyn & Bacon Mayers Personality: A Systems Approach PART 1: EXPLORING PERSONALITYCHAPTER 1: WHAT IS PERSONALITY? What is Personality? This multimedia product and its contents are protected under copyright law. The following are prohibited by law: any public performance or display, including transmission of any image over a network; preparation of any derivative work, including the extraction, in whole or in part, of any image; any rental, lease, or lending of the program.

2. Copyright © 2007 Allyn & Bacon Mayers Personality: A Systems Approach PART 1: EXPLORING PERSONALITYCHAPTER 1: WHAT IS PERSONALITY? Purpose To provide a first look at personality and its study To introduce the plan of the course

3. Copyright © 2007 Allyn & Bacon Mayers Personality: A Systems Approach PART 1: EXPLORING PERSONALITYCHAPTER 1: WHAT IS PERSONALITY? Three Big Questions 1. Who Am I? 3. What is My Future? 2. How Do People Differ? These inter-related questions (and others) tie ancient philosophy to contemporary personality psychology

4. Copyright © 2007 Allyn & Bacon Mayers Personality: A Systems Approach PART 1: EXPLORING PERSONALITYCHAPTER 1: WHAT IS PERSONALITY? Definition of Personality Personality is the organized, developing, system within the individual that represents the collective action of that individuals major psychological subsystems. Some Psychological Systems…

5. Copyright © 2007 Allyn & Bacon Mayers Personality: A Systems Approach PART 1: EXPLORING PERSONALITYCHAPTER 1: WHAT IS PERSONALITY? Most Common Training Programs Central Training –Ph.D. programs in Personality –Ph.D. programs in Personality and Social Psychology Related Training –Ph.D. programs in Clinical and Counseling Psychology –M.B.A. & Ph.D. programs in Organizational Behavior –M.D. programs in Psychiatry –Ed.D. programs in Educational Psychology

6. Copyright © 2007 Allyn & Bacon Mayers Personality: A Systems Approach PART 1: EXPLORING PERSONALITYCHAPTER 1: WHAT IS PERSONALITY? Rationale for Studying Personality Psychology Knowledge for knowledges sake Applications to assessment Applications to prediction and selection Applications to change

7. Copyright © 2007 Allyn & Bacon Mayers Personality: A Systems Approach PART 1: EXPLORING PERSONALITYCHAPTER 1: WHAT IS PERSONALITY? The Four Topics of this Course The four topics follow the systems framework for personality psychology The four topics: 1.Identifying the personality system 2.Parts of personality 3.Personality organization 4.Personality development

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