Personality notes

These notes cover the theories of personality by Alfred Adler(personality development), Carl Jung(Archetypes, and the collective unconscious), Erik Erickson(ego psychology, identity crisis, and personality development), and Karen Horney(Feminine psychology, Neurosis). These notes also cover Erik Fromm and his views on religion and how it relates to psychology.

These notes cover the humanistic approach, the three major concepts of the humanistic view, the roots of humanistic psychology, key elements to the humanistic approach, personal growth, Carl Rogers theory, conditional and unconditional positive regard, Abraham Maslow's theories, self actualization, optimal experience, person centered therapy, the Q-sort technique, and job satisfaction.

These notes cover topics including what personality is, whether or not it is inherited, Hans Eysenck's personality theory, the structure of personality, stimulation levels, sensitivity to reinforcement, temperament, uninhibited children, inhibited children, Evolutionary personality psychology, anxiety and social exclusion, behaviors of children in schools, temperament and academic performance, and brain activity.

These notes cover the topics of behaviorism, classical conditioning, operant conditioning, what role punishment plays in conditioning, social learning theory, social cognitive theory, self efficacy in therapy, and behavior modification methods.

these notes cover anxiety, the different ways people cope with anxiety, ineffective ways to cope with anxiety, the frustration aggression hypothesis, displacing aggression, catharsis and aggression, attachment theories, the 4 category model,

These notes cover the cognitive approach, including Personal construct theory, Personal constructs, cognitive personality variables, cognitive effective units, possible selves, self discrepancies, and psychotherapy.

These notes cover Freud, his theory of personality, Id, Superego, and ego, developmental stages, the unconscious, and defense mechanisms

These notes go over the topics of dream interpretation and how it is used in psychology, the function of dreams, defense mechanisms, using humor to displace aggression, and hypnosis and why it works for some people but not for others.

these notes discuss trait theorists Gordon Allport, Henry Murray, and Raymond Cattell, as well as discussing the big 5 model, and whether or not traits predict future behavior

These notes cover gender roles, gender role stereotypes and behaviors, Masculinity and Femininity , androgyny, as well as gender and interpersonal relationships.