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> On Mar 28, 2015, at 11:00 AM, Michael Britt <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > It’s funny you should bring up this topic Annette. I’m teaching Intro to a > class of non-psych majors and I’ve been thinking a lot about the upcoming > chapter on personality. The topics really are quite old. As is typical of > most Intro books, the chapter starts out with the venerable old Freudian > theory of id/ego/superego and then continues on with the “usual suspects”. I > just really wonder what in this chapter is really worth exploring - > especially for non-majors. Maybe this is a contrast effect: we’re going to > finish up with Social Psych next week and there is so much in this topic that > is relevant to their daily lives. Personality, by contrast, seems much less > so. What do people think are the really relevant parts of Personality? > > Michael > > Michael A. Britt, Ph.D. > [email protected] > http://www.ThePsychFiles.com > Twitter: @mbritt > > > >> On Mar 27, 2015, at 3:42 PM, Annette Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I posted this yesterday but it was not in my digest today :( So I hope this >> goes through this time. >> >> We offer a course in our department called Theories of Personality. >> >> IMHO, given the syllabus of the person currently teaching the course, it >> should be called History of Theories of Personality, as the course features >> theories by May, Allport, Maslow, Freud, Kelley, Rogers, Cattell, Bandura >> and Rotter, in no particular order, I just jotted them down as quickly as I >> could. >> >> If this course is still widely taught, would this look the appropriate >> theories to talk about? I saw next to nothing about trait theory except for >> Cattell. And is that all there is? >> >> There are no syllabi to compare to for a theories of personality course in >> project syllabus younger than 2006. That is 9 years ago and the content does >> seem similar. So does this mean that in the past decade this has phased out? >> >> Annette >> >> >> Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph. D. >> Professor, Psychological Sciences >> University of San Diego >> 5998 Alcala Park >> San Diego, CA 92110-2492 >> [email protected] >> --- >> You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe click here: >> http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13405.0125141592fa9ededc665c55d9958f69&n=T&l=tips&o=43409 >> or send a blank email to >> leave-43409-13405.0125141592fa9ededc665c55d9958...@fsulist.frostburg.edu > > > --- > > You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe click here: > http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13152.d92d7ec47187a662aacda2d4b4c7628e&n=T&l=tips&o=43428 > > (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) > > or send a blank email to > leave-43428-13152.d92d7ec47187a662aacda2d4b4c76...@fsulist.frostburg.edu > > > > > > --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=43452 or send a blank email to leave-43452-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
