Hockenbury & Hockenbury Psychology 2e © 2000 Worth Publishers Chapter 11 Personality Introduction: What Is Personality? The Psychoanalytic Perspective on Personality –The Life of Sigmund Freud Influences in the Development of Freud’s Ideas –Freud’s Dynamic Theory of Personality The Structure of Personality The Ego Defense Mechanisms: Unconscious Self-Deceptions –Personality Development: The Psychosexual Stages Fixation: Unresolved Developmental Conflicts The Oedipus Complex: A Psychosexual Drama The Latency and Genital Stages

Hockenbury & Hockenbury Psychology 2e © 2000 Worth Publishers Chapter 11 Personality The Psychoanalytic Perspective on Personality, continued –The Neo-Freudians: Freud’s Descendants and Dissenters Carl Jung: Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious Karen Horney: Basic Anxiety and “Womb Envy” Alfred Adler: Feelings of Inferiority and Striving for Superiority –Evaluating Freud and the Psychoanalytic Perspective on Personality Inadequacy of Evidence Lack of Testability Sexism

Hockenbury & Hockenbury Psychology 2e © 2000 Worth Publishers Chapter 11 Personality The Humanistic Perspective on Personality –The Emergence of the “Third Force” –Carl Rogers: On Becoming a Person The Self-Concept The Fully Functioning Person –Evaluating the Humanistic Perspective on Personality The Social Cognitive Perspective on Personality –Albert Bandura and Social Cognitive Theory Beliefs of Self-Efficacy: Anybody Here Know How to Fix a Light Switch? –Evaluating the Social Cognitive Perspective on Personality

Hockenbury & Hockenbury Psychology 2e © 2000 Worth Publishers Chapter 11 Personality The Trait Perspective on Personality –Surface Traits and Source Traits –Two Representative Trait Theories: Raymond Cattell and Hans Eysenck –Sixteen Are Too Many, Three Are Too Few: The Five-Factor Model –The Great Debate: Is Behavior Influenced More by Traits or by Situations?

Hockenbury & Hockenbury Psychology 2e © 2000 Worth Publishers Chapter 11 Personality Personality Traits and Genetics: Just a Chip off the Old Block? –Behavioral Genetics –Why Are Siblings So Different? (Or, “Mom Always Liked You Best!”) –Evaluating the Trait Perspective on Personality Assessing Personality: Psychological Tests –Projective Tests: Like Seeing Things in the Clouds Strengths and Weaknesses of Projective Tests –Self-Report Inventories: Has Anybody Got an Eraser? Strengths and Weaknesses of Self-Report Inventories

Hockenbury & Hockenbury Psychology 2e © 2000 Worth Publishers Chapter 11 Personality Summing Up: Personality Application: Possible Selves: Imagine the Possibilities Summary