Study Guide Test 1

Professor Stern-Theories of Personality

 

Note: This is a topical guide.  It is a list of topics covered.  It is not simply a list of terms to memorize.  It does not necessarily include all of the topics in the text and lecture.

 

 

You are expected to have read and studied chapters 1 through 6.

 

Type vs. Trait theories

Idiographic vs. nomothetic

Differences in Personality theories

Measurement of Personality

Methodology of personality research

Sigmund Freud

Assumptions of Freud’s theory

Levels of Consciousness

Structures of the Personality

Stages of Psychosexual development

Sublimation

Dreams

Parapraxes

Defense Mechanisms

Psychopathology

Psychoanalysis

Carl Jung

Differences between Jung and Freud

Instincts and Psychic energy

Complexes

Word association task

Jung’s structure of the personality

Archetypes of the collective unconscious

Individuation

Personality development

Character typology

Alfred Adler

Basics of Adler's theory

Social Interest

Striving for superiority

Pathogenic factors in child raising

Style of life

Birth order

Erik Erikson

The stages of man

Gender and play

Components of identity

Karen Horney

Self-realization

Interpersonal orientations

Role of women in Horney's theory

Horney’s defense mechanisms