1. Explain the definitions of psychology
2. Understand how ethnic and gender issues affect personality development.
3. Understand the concepts of assessment and research in the study of personality
4. Explain and give examples of various types of assessment instruments used in studying personality.
5. Understand the development of the psychoanalytic approach to personality, thought through the study of its founder, Sigmund Freud.
6. Understand the structure of personality: the id, the ego, and the superego; concepts of defense mechanisms against anxiety; the psychosexual stages of personality development; free association and dream analysis
7. Understand the extensions of Freudian theory with ego psychology and Object Relations Theory.
8. Understand the systems and development of personality according to Jung.
9. Understand the use of word association, dream analysis, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator for assessment of personality.
10. Understand Adler's concept of inferiority feelings, striving for superiority, or perfection, styles of life.
11. Compare and contrast Adler's ideas on birth order.
12. Understand compare and contrast Horney's ten neurotic trends with Freud's defense mechanisms.
13. Understand the concepts of basic anxiety and how a neurotic person would respond in terms of personality formation.
14. Understand the concept of womb envy and how this differs from Freud's concept of penis envy.
15. Understand the nature of the "tyranny of the shoulds," and what has been seen concerning the research of Horney's theories.
16. Understand the Psychosocial Stages of Personality Development.
17. Understand Maslow's theory of personality development, needs theory, discuss the study of self-actualizers.
18. Understand Carl Rogers, the self and the tendency toward actualization, the experiential world, characteristics of fully functioning persons.
19. Understand personal construct theory, and ways of anticipating life events.
20. Describe modeling and the basis of observational learning.
21. The processes of observational learning.
22. Trace self-reinforcement and self-efficacy.
23. Outline the developmental stages self-efficacy.
24. behavior modification.
25. assessment and research on Bandura's theory.
26. Review Allport's personality traits, personality development, and assessment of Allport's theory
27. Erickson's Psychosocial Stages of Personality Development, Summarize research in Erikson's theory.