| Description |
xxiv, 582 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: v -- Table of Contents -- Chapter 1: What Is Personality? -- Chapter Outline -- Three Concerns of Personality Theory -- Proposed Determinants of Personality -- Questions Confronting the Personality Theorist -- How Do We Find the Answers? -- Science and Personality Theory -- Summary -- Experiential Exercises -- Discussion Questions -- Glossary -- Chapter 2: Sigmund Freud -- Chapter Outline -- Biographical Sketch -- Early Influences on Freud's Theory -- Instincts and Their Characteristics -- Divisions of the Mind -- Cathexis and Anticathexis -- Anxiety -- Ego-Defense Mechanisms -- Psychosexual Stages of Development -- Summary of Freud's Views on Feminine Psychology -- Tapping the Unconscious Mind -- Freud's View of Religion -- Freud's View of Human Nature -- vi -- Modifications of the Freudian Legend -- Evaluation -- Summary -- Experiential Exercises -- Discussion Questions -- Glossary -- Chapter 3: Carl Jung -- Chapter Outline -- Biographical Sketch -- Jung's Early Dreams, Visions, and Fantasies -- Jung's Early Professional Life -- Jung's Relationship with Freud -- Libido, and the Principles of Equivalence, Entropy, and Opposites -- Components of the Personality -- Persona, Anima, Animus, Shadow, and Self -- Psychological Types -- Stages of Development -- Life's Goal -- Causality, Teleology, and Synchronicity -- Research Techniques -- Jung's View of Human Nature -- Evaluation -- Summary -- vii -- Experiential Exercises -- Discussion Questions -- Glossary -- Chapter 4: Alfred Adler -- Chapter Outline -- Biographical Sketch -- Individual Psychology -- Organ Inferiority and Compensation -- Feelings of Inferiority -- Striving for SuperiorityVaihinger's Philosophy of "As If" -- Fictional Goals and Lifestyles -- Social Interest -- Creative Self -- Safeguarding Strategies -- Goal of Psychotherapy -- Methods of Research -- Summary of the Differences Between Adler and Freud -- Evaluation -- Summary -- Experiential Exercises -- Discussion Questions -- viii -- Glossary -- Chapter 5: Karen Horney -- Chapter Outline -- Biographical Sketch -- Basic Evil, Hostility, and Anxiety -- Adjustments to Basic Anxiety -- Real and Idealized Self -- Externalization -- Auxiliary Approaches to Artificial Harmony -- Feminine Psychology -- Psychotherapy -- Self-Analysis -- Comparison of Horney and Freud -- Evaluation -- Summary -- Experiential Exercises -- Discussion Questions -- Glossary -- Chapter 6: Erik H. Erikson -- Chapter Outline -- Biographical Sketch -- ix -- Anatomy and Destiny -- Epigenetic Principle, Crises, Ritualizations, -- and Ritualisms -- Eight Stages of Personality Development -- Goal of Psychotherapy -- Comparison of Erikson and Freud -- Evaluation -- Summary -- Experiential Exercises -- Discussion Questions -- Glossary -- Chapter 7: Gordon Allport -- Chapter Outline -- Biographical Sketch -- What Is Personality? -- Character, Temperament, and Type -- Criteria for an Adequate Theory of Personality -- Allport's Concept of Trait -- Types of Traits -- The Proprium -- Functional Autonomy -- The Healthy, Mature Adult Personality -- x -- The Nature of Prejudice -- Religion -- Letters from Jenny -- Study of Expressive Behavior and Values -- Evaluation -- Summary -- Experiential Exercises -- Discussion Questions -- Glossary -- Chapter 8: Raymond B. Cattell and Hans J. Eysenck -- Chapter Outline -- Biographical Sketches -- Factor Analysis -- Nomothetic versus Idiographic Techniques -- Taxonomy of Traits -- Historical Roots of Eysenck's Theory -- Biological Bases of Personality -- Is Anatomy Destiny? -- Personality Development -- Psychopathology -- Psychotherapy -- xi -- Contemporary Developments: The Big Five -- Evaluation -- Summary -- Experiential Exercises -- Discussion Questions -- Glossary -- Chapter 9: B. F. Skinner -- Chapter Outline -- Biographical Sketch -- Skinner and Personality Theory -- Respondent and Operant Behavior -- Operant Conditioning -- Chaining -- Verbal Behavior -- Reinforcement Schedules -- Superstitious Behavior -- Reinforcement Contingencies -- Our Biggest Problem -- Behavior Disorders and Behavior Therapy -- Walden Two -- Beyond Freedom and Dignity -- Evaluation -- xii -- Summary -- Experiential Exercises -- Discussion Questions -- Glossary -- Chapter 10: John Dollard and Neal Miller -- Chapter Outline -- Biographical Sketches -- Hull's Theory of Learning -- Drive, Cue, Response, and Reinforcement -- Response Hierarchies -- Fear as an Acquired Drive -- Stimulus Generalization -- Conflict -- Displacement -- Frustration-Aggression Hypothesis -- Importance of Language -- Unconscious Mind -- Neurosis and Symptom Formation -- Psychotherapy -- Four Critical Training Situations of Childhood -- Evaluation -- xiii -- Summary -- Experiential Exercises -- Discussion Questions -- Glossary -- Chapter 11: Albert Bandura and Walter Mischel -- Chapter Outline -- Biographical Sketches -- Consistency of Human Behavior -- Cognitive Social Person Variables -- Observational Learning -- Self-Regulated Behavior -- Dysfunctional Expectancies and Psychotherapy -- Social Cognitive Theory View of Human Nature -- Evaluation -- Summary -- Experiential Exercises -- Discussion Questions -- Glossary -- Chapter 12: David M. Buss -- Chapter Outline -- Biographical Sketch -- xiv -- Darwin's Theory of Evolution -- Evolutionary Psychology is not Sociobiology -- Personality Theory and Human Nature -- Sex Differences: Mating Strategies -- Love and Jealousy -- Altruism, Inclusive Fitness and Social Groups -- Dysfunctional Behavior -- Evaluation -- Summary -- Experiential Exercises -- Discussion Questions -- Glossary -- Chapter 13: George Kelly -- Chapter Outline -- Biographical Sketch -- Categorization of Kelly's Theory -- Basic Postulate-People as Scientists -- The 11 Corollaries -- CPC Cycle -- Creativity Cycle -- Kelly's Interpretation of Traditional Psychological Concepts -- Psychotherapy -- xv -- Construct Systems and Paradigms -- Evaluation -- Summary -- Experiential Exercises -- Discussion Questions -- Glossary -- Chapter 14: Carl Rogers -- Chapter Outline -- Biographical Sketch -- Actualizing Tendency -- Phenomenological Field -- Need for Positive Regard -- Incongruent Person -- Psychotherapy -- Fully Functioning Person -- Q-Sort Technique -- Rogers-Skinner Debate -- Freedom to Learn -- Modern Marriage -- Person of Tomorrow -- Evaluation -- Summary -- xvi -- Experiential Exercises -- Discussion Questions -- Glossary -- Chapter 15: Abraham Maslow -- Chapter Outline -- Biographical Sketch -- Third Force Psychology -- Hierarchy of Needs -- Being Motivation -- Characteristics of Self-Actualizing People -- Why Self-Actualization Is Not Universal -- Eupsychia -- Ashrams-Places for Personal Growth -- Transpersonal Psychology -- Evaluation -- Summary -- Experiential Exercises -- Discussion Questions -- Glossary -- Chapter 16: Rollo Reese May -- Chapter Outline -- xvii -- Biographical Sketch -- Existentialism -- Human Dilemma -- Anxiety and Guilt -- Importance of Values -- Nature of Love -- Psychotherapy -- Importance of Myth -- New Science of Humans -- Evaluation -- Summary -- Experiential Exercises -- Discussion Questions -- Glossary -- Chapter 17: A Final Word -- Chapter Outline -- Personality Theories Often Reflect -- the Biographies of Their Authors -- Much about Personality Remains Unknown -- Composite of All Major Theories Best Explains Personality -- You Are the Final Judge -- xviii -- Summary -- Experiential Exercises |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 534-564 |
| Subject |
Psychology -- History.
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Personality -- History -- Textbooks.
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Psychology -- History -- Textbooks.
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Psychology -- Philosophy.
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Personality.
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| Genre/Form |
Textbooks.
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| Author |
Olson, Matthew H.
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| LC no. |
2005036544 |
| ISBN |
013194228X |
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