Due: Monday, March 2
Chapter 15 Questions:
Section 1:
1. Why and how are psychological tests developed and used?
Section 2:
2. What are the differences between achievement and aptitude tests?
3. What was your experience with the SAT? Do you feel it was an achievement or aptitude test, or both? Does the SAT have validity?
4. What are the contributions and limitations of interest inventories?
Section 3:
5. How do objective personality tests work? What can they tell us?
6. How are projective tests different? Does this make them more or less useful? Why?
7. What does the Rorschach inkblot on page 352 look like to you? Can you say anything about your personality based on your response?
8. Create a brief story based on the drawing on page 354. What might your story indicate about your personality?
9. Read the “Case Studies” box on page 353. On the Meyers-Briggs scale, what is your personality type? Does this label have real meaning?
Section 4:
10. What advice does the book give for test taking in each area?
a. test preparation
b. multiple-choice questions
c. true-false questions
d. short-answer questions
e. essay questions
11. How can you avoid test anxiety?
12. What of this advice rings true for you?
Monday, February 23, 2009
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Chapter 14
Journal due Weds 2/11
Chapter 14 Questions:
Section 1:
1. What does trait theory tell us about peoples’ personalities? What are some of the traits they cite as basic to our personality? Does this make sense to you?
Section 2:
2. Discuss Freud’s idea of the id, ego, and superego.
3. Describe the defense mechanisms Freud says we use to avoid dealing with ideas that cause anxiety for us. Are defense mechanisms normal?
4. Give a brief overview of the five stages of development that Freud describes.
5. Discuss Jung’s idea of the collective unconscious.
6. According to Adler, how does our inferiority complex shape our behavior?
7. How did Erikson modify Freud’s theories?
8. What are the major contributions of the psychoanalytical theorists?
Section 3:
9. What is the ideal society that Skinner describes in Walden Two? Why are people not free?
10. For social learning theorists, what internal factors also influence our behavior?
Section 4:
11. How do Humanists approach the idea of personality?
12. According to Rogers, how do people develop their personalities through their self-concepts?
Section 5:
13. For sociocultural theorists, what elements in society shape our personalities? How does acculturation show this?
14. Of the learning, humanistic and sociocultural theories of personality, which do find most important? Why?
Chapter 14 Questions:
Section 1:
1. What does trait theory tell us about peoples’ personalities? What are some of the traits they cite as basic to our personality? Does this make sense to you?
Section 2:
2. Discuss Freud’s idea of the id, ego, and superego.
3. Describe the defense mechanisms Freud says we use to avoid dealing with ideas that cause anxiety for us. Are defense mechanisms normal?
4. Give a brief overview of the five stages of development that Freud describes.
5. Discuss Jung’s idea of the collective unconscious.
6. According to Adler, how does our inferiority complex shape our behavior?
7. How did Erikson modify Freud’s theories?
8. What are the major contributions of the psychoanalytical theorists?
Section 3:
9. What is the ideal society that Skinner describes in Walden Two? Why are people not free?
10. For social learning theorists, what internal factors also influence our behavior?
Section 4:
11. How do Humanists approach the idea of personality?
12. According to Rogers, how do people develop their personalities through their self-concepts?
Section 5:
13. For sociocultural theorists, what elements in society shape our personalities? How does acculturation show this?
14. Of the learning, humanistic and sociocultural theories of personality, which do find most important? Why?
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