Examine the contributions Freud, Jung, and Adler made to psychology and the study of personality as we know it today.

• Discuss the experiences that inspired Freud to formulate psychoanalysis.
• Determine what dreams, jokes, and slips of the tongue have in common.
• Compare Jung and Adler’s theories to Freud’s psychoanalysis.
• Describe how projective tests are used.
• Create an argument for Freud’s greatest legacy.

Contrast psychoanalysis with the cognitive social-learning approach.

• Describe the principles of learning that laid the foundation for an alternative approach to personality.
• Determine if you have an internal or external locus of control.
• Connect self-efficacy to wellness.

Investigate whether or not an interaction exists between self-actualization and unconditional positive regard.

• List the tenets of a humanistic approach to personality.
• Connect Carl Rogers’s clinical observations to his theories about the self.
• Understand how self-discrepancies affect our emotional well-being.
• Describe how it feels to be self-actualized.

Identify the roles that nature and nurture are believed to play in trait development.

• List the main goals in a trait approach to personality.
• Define the Big Five.
• Compare the strengths and weaknesses of personality tests.
• Create an argument that supports the role of genetic factors in personality.
• Juxtapose introverts with extraverts.