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?