Personality

Asking and answering questions about personality research. The psychoanalytic strategy: Introduction to the psychoanalytic strategy; Origins and development of personality; The organization of personality; Assessment and personality change; Liabilities of the psychoanalytic strategy. The dispositional strategy: Introduction to the dispositional strategy; The assessment of dispositions; Trait and type approaches; Needs and motives; Liabilities of the dispositional strategy. The phenomenological strategy: Introduction to the phenomenological strategy; Rogers' self-actualization theory; Maslow's theory of human motivation; Kelly's theory of personal constructs; Liabilities of phenomenological strategies. The behavioural strategy: Introduction to the behavioural strategy; The radical-behavioural approach; The family of social learning theories; The cognitive behavioural approach; Liabilities of the behavioural strategy.