1. Personality

2. Criminal Personality Profiling PsychPortal>ActivePsych+Personality

3. Trait Personality Theory PsychPortal>Video+Personality

4. Personality and self-esteem PsychPortal>ActivePsych+Personality Assessing Self-Esteem

5. Personality and genetics Do genes make us happy? Movie IVTK#3

6. Personality and the brain Are our personality traits fixed or can we change? How a degenerative brain disease effects our personality Movie IVTK#3 What does this case suggest regarding brain-mind connections?

7. Freud’s Personality Structure What are Freud’s three main parts of your personality? Give an example of each. What kinds of problems might a person have if he or she was dominated by either the id or superego?

8. Our sense of morality and right and wrong comes from what part of our personality – according to Freud?

9. What ego defense mechanisms are there? Example? Reaction formation Projection Rationalization Displacement

10. You cheated on your income taxes, but you feel that is ok because everyone does it.. What ego defense mechanism are you using?

11. Projective tests What are examples of projective tests? When would each be used? What are some problems with projective tests?

12. Bill is depressed and having strange, inaccurate thoughts. What test would be most accurate to diagnose his condition? MMPI

13. How does reciprocal determinism affect personality? What is reciprocal determinism? The cause and result form a cycle and determine each other Example using Bandura’s 3 factors Behavior (Personality) Internal personal factors (Thoughts) Environmental factors

14. Janet has an internal locus of control. What does that tell you? What comments might you expect from her? Bill has an external locus of control What comments might you expect from him?

15. Twee did poorly on an exam, what would she say if she had: An internal locus of control An external locus of control A self-serving bias?

16. Betty is in a hostile marriage with a very controlling husband. She has been beaten several times and has given up hope that she would even get out of the marriage. What has she developed? Learned helplessness