Overview

Do you want to know what your personality is?
Do you want to know how you become what you are?
Do you want to know how you can develop a better self?
Do you want to know what the route is for self-actualization?
Do you want to know what self-actualization means for our Chinese?
Please take this course
You will get answers to all the above questions.
You will also improve your English such that you will be well prepared for taking overseas studies that are entirely taught in English.

Syllabus

01 What Is Personality

Vocabulary for Personality Psychology Lecture 1
1.1 How Is Personality Defined？
1.2 What Are Different Approaches to Understanding of Personality?
1.3 An Overview of Contemporary Theories of Personality
1.4 Six Domains of Personality Psychology
Exercises

02 Nature-Nurture Interaction

Vocabulary for Personality Psychology Lecture 2
2.1 Nature-Nurture Interaction
2.2 Person-Environment Interaction
2.3 Can A Boy Be Changed into A Girl- David Reimer’s Tragic Story
Exercises

03 Trait Approach

Vocabulary for Personality Psychology Lecture 3
3.1 Lexical Approach to Classification of Personality
3.2 Statistical Approach to Classification of Personality
3.3 Theoretical Approach to Classification of Personality
3.4 The Five-Factor Model of Classification of Personality
Exercises

04 Psychoanalytic Approach

Vocabulary for Personality Psychology Lecture 4
4.1 The Development of Psychoanalysis
4.2 Freud’s Theory of Psychoanalysis
4.3 Freud’s Theory of Defense Mechanisms
4.4 Freud’s Theory of Psychosexual Development
4.5 Freud’s Influence on Personality Psychology
Exercises

05 Critics of Freud’s Theories

Vocabulary for Personality Psychology Lecture 5
5.1 Why Did Adler Break up with Freud?
5.2 What Is Adler’s Individual Psychology?
5.3 Why Did Jung Break up with Freud?
5.4 What Is Jung’s Analytical Psychology?
5.5 Jung’s Contribution to Personality Psychology
Exercises

06 Behavioral Approach

Vocabulary for Personality Psychology Lecture 6
6.1 Classical Conditioning and Personality Development
6.2 Learning-Behavior Modification and Personality Development
6.3 Social Learning Theory and Personality Development
Exercises

07 Humanistic Approach

Vocabulary for Personality Psychology Lecture 7
7.1 Self Growth to Overcome Deficits and Anxiety
7.2 Self Growth to Achieve Self-actualization
7.3 Self Growth to Achieve Flow Experiences
7.4 Self Growth to Achieve Self-Congruence
7.5 Self Growth to Cultivate Character Strength
Exercises

08 Personality Tests

Vocabulary for Personality Psychology Lecture 8
8.1 Uses of Psychological Tests
8.2 Standardization of Objective Tests
8.3 Non-Standardized Projective Tests
8.4 Problems with Standardized, Objective Tests and Non-Standardized, Projective Tests
Exercises

09 Chinese Personality

Vocabulary for Personality Psychology Lecture 9
9.1 What Are Culture and Cultural Characteristics of Chinese People
9.2 What Are Characteristics of Chinese Enculturation
9.3 What Is the Enculturation of Chinese Personality and Its Process
9.4 How to Become A Happy and Lovely Chinese：My Empirical Findings and Critical Recommendations
Exercises