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Click below to go to a section of the course:

Pt. 1: What is Psychology?

Pt. 2: The Person

Pt. 3: Biological Foundations

Pt. 4: The Interface w/ Our Environment

Pt. 5: Influence by & Interactions w/ Our Environment

Pt. 6: Bringing It All Together


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Part 2: The Person—Development and Personality

Sept. 12 – Sept. 26 2 – Sept. 26 Sept. 12 – Sept. 26

Before going into the nuts and bolts of how the mind and brain work, this section will introduce you to the whole person – our personality-- and theories behind how we develop over the lifespan.

Chapter 12, Development over the lifespan (Sept. 12 – 15)

Chapter 13, Personality (Sept. 17 – 24)  

**Lab #2 Personality/Development (Sept. 17 & 18)

 

EXAM 1:  Friday, Sept. 26, over Development and Personality (60 pts.)

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Outline of lecture topics-- Sept. 12 - 24

Pt. 2: The Person-- Development & Personality

DEVELOPMENT
Child Development:
Theories of development-- Nature/nurture
Cognitive development (Piaget)
Social context of development: Zone of proximal development (Vygotsky)
Social development (Erickson) (See overhead of Erickson's stages)
Adolescence: Identity crisis and development (Erickson).  
(See overhead on identity)
Cognitive and emotional development in aging.   
(See overheads on cross-sectional data and on longitudinal data related to intelligence over the lifespan.)

 

PERSONALITY

Perspectives on personality:

Traits and biological approaches, including twin research (pp. 470-478).  
(See overhead of the "Big 5" personality factors.)

Learning and social-cognition approaches (pp. 478-488).

Psychodynamic perspectives—Freud and beyond (pp. 455-464).

Humanistic/Phenomenological perspectives (pp. 464-470)

Consistency of personality across situations: the role of self-monitoring.

Personality assessment (pp. 490-495):

Ways to measure personality

How do assessments relate to perspectives?

How well can personality be measured?

 

 
 

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