1. 10 Fun Activities for Adjectives of Personality Originally designed for English teachers to help their students understand and describe nuances of character, this site offers 10 activities exploring adjectives helping students to describe the personality of themselves and others. It includes links to positive personality adjectives and negative personality adjectives. It’s Good for an ice breaker or as a class exercise to introduce trait theory.

https://www.englishclub.com/efl/tefl-articles/adjectives-personality

2. Barnum Effect Feedback

Take this test to remind yourself why good personality tests should provide specific feedback . . . and why horoscopes are so much fun! See also this explanation of the Barnum Effect.

http://psych.fullerton.edu/mbirnbaum/psych101/barnum_demo.htm

3. Fun Personality quiz

How well do you know your personality? Are you fun loving? Shy? Aggressive? Emotional? Take this fun personality quiz and learn who you really are.

http://www.quizrocket.com/fun-personality-quiz

1. Phineas Gage was the most famous case of prefrontal damage and resulting behavior that first revealed a connection between impaired rationality and specific brain damage.

http://stuff4educators.com/index.php?p=1_92_Phineas-Gage

2. Who Am I?: Self-Portraits in Art & Writing

Designed to help students begin to answer the important question: "Who Am I?," these lessons use self-portraits from the National Gallery of Art's collection to inspire students to create their own self-portraits, poems, speeches, and letters.

http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/education/teachers/lessons-activities/self-portraits.html

3. This app includes questions designed to assess what principles and standards are most important to you in structuring your moral values. The items explore both moral judgments and moral reasoning and relate to your perceptions on what kind of behaviors or actions could be considered either praiseworthy or blameworthy. The goal of this app is to provide you with knowledge of what moral values you endorse the most and what values you find most aversive. The quiz includes about 30 questions and should take approximately 5 minutes to complete.

http://www.yourpersonality.net/political/griffin1.pl

1. Laney`s Original Inkblot Test

Inkblots are fun. Sometimes I make them when I’m bored at work. See your personality through what you see in the inkblot. This is not the famous Rorschach test, but it provides an idea of how projective testing can provide information for the therapist and/or person.

http://www.youthink.com/quiz.cfm?action=go_detail&sub_action=take&obj_id=6066

2. Reliability and Validity

Although this activity is geared to middle school students to discover the reliability and validity of information found on the internet, it applies to all ages:

•Recognize the limitations, as well as the usefulness, of Internet resources

•Understand the concept of validity

•Develop and be able to apply criteria for judging the validity of such sources

http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/~agorman/educ6804/validity/lesson2.htm

3. Unpublished Personality Quizzes

Take the time to learn how to locate tests for use in research. Then locate a personality quiz, evaluation, or test that you believe could be helpful in gathering information.

http://www.apa.org/science/programs/testing/find-tests.aspx

1. Psychoanalytic tradition: Freud, pp. 110-111.

Take this quiz, based on Freud’s stages of psyche, to see how your psyche predominately functions.

Are you the id, ego or superego?

2. Psychoanalytic Developmental Stages, pp. 111-112.

Check your developmental stage.

Freudian Psychosexual Stage Test

3. Studying Alfred Adler’s views, pp. 114-15.

Check out what you know about Adler and his view on individual psychology.

 Adler: Individual Psychology

1. Works of Anna Freud, pp. 144-145.

Evaluate which defense mechanisms you rely on by taking this quiz (note inhibition was not one of the original defense mechanisms described by Anna Freud but was identified later by subsequent researchers).

http://psychology.about.com/qz/Can-You-Identify-These-Defense-Mechanisms

2. Away From the Libido Concept, pp. 152-153.

Take a few minutes to take this quiz to respond and review the life and principles of Karen Horney. 

http://highered.mheducation.com/sites/0072316799/student_view0/part2/chapter6/multiple_choice_quiz.html

3. Jung’s Psychological Types, p. 123

Take an adapted Myers-Brigg personality test based on Jung’s function types. Do you agree or disagree with the results? Why?

http://kisa.ca/personality

1. Anthropomorphism, p. 171.

Anthropomorphism (pronounced ann-throw-poe-MORF-ism) comes from the Greek words anthropo (human) and morph (form). It’s putting something into a human form when otherwise it would be an animal or inanimate object. Try this online quiz to discover your level of understanding of the term anthropomorphism.

http://literaryterms.net/anthropomorphism-quiz

2. Types of Personality and the Nervous System, p. 177.

Watch this fast moving 10-minute video clip on the important role of the nervous system in your personality.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPix_X-9t7E

3. Summary of Behaviorism, p. 196.

Here is a quiz that will make you think about what you know about behaviorism. Read the questions slowly, and be careful in selecting your answers from the multiple-choice options.

http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/SciTech/All-About-Behaviorism-201488.html

1. Ancient philosophies, p. 204.

Take this quiz to determine which ancient philosophy best suits your personality. Based on the analysis of your personality, this fun quiz will tell you if you're better suited to be partying with the Epicureans or heckling people with the Cynics.

http://historybuff.com/quiz-which-ancient-philosophy-best-fits-your-personality-GpoPDXByd8jR

2. The Big Five, pp. 213-214.

Watch this delightful video clip on the Big 5 personality traits in movies to review the traits of the Big 5.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9D6k3T2sbE

3. Are there Criminal Traits? pp. 223-24.

Cesare Lombroso was one of the most famous believers of biologically determined criminality. Take the quiz on criminal anthropology to see where your traits place you. According to your results, do you agree or disagree with his theory.

http://www.funtrivia.com/playquiz/quiz281529203b3c0.html

1. The Gestalt Tradition, pp. 233-234.

Take a look at the influence of interactive learning and life experience through this gestalt laws of perception quiz. It scores you on time, wrong answers, and right answers.

https://www.goconqr.com/en/p/250012-gestalt-laws-of-perception-quizzes

2. The Study of Attitudes, pp. 239-240

Take this free online cognitive test to find areas where your cognition (thinking) may be causing you difficulties.

http://www.helpself.com/thinker.htm

3. Summary, pp. 223-224.

Take this fun online quiz in summary of the cognitive tradition.

http://www.quizyourfriends.com/take-quiz.php?id=1608211848499213&pg&

1. Hierarchy of Needs, pp. 274-275.

Watch this cute video using the animated movie of Up to demonstrate Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iucf76E-R2s

2. Principles of Humanistic Psychology, pp. 267-268.

Try your hand at this Humanistic word search puzzle to help you study and review the principles of humanistic psychology.

3. Carl Rogers and the Person-Centered Approach, pp. 280-281.

This 10-minute video is intended as an introduction to the humanistic psychologist Carl Rogers. It is not intended as a comprehensive or definitive account of his thought but serves as a great intro to this humanistic approach.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvejEpDRHmU

1. Nature and Nurture interact, pp.301-302.

Watch this short movie (approximately 5 minutes) that describes why the identical twins Lucky Lyle and Troubled Tim end up with totally different personalities. Is it environment or genetics? Or perhaps both?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k50yMwEOWGU

2. Erik Erikson and the Psychoanalytic Tradition, p. 313.

This is a true/false quiz on Erik Erikson. Check out what you know about this interesting person.

http://highered.mheducation.com/sites/0073532193/student_view0/chapter8/true_or_false_quiz.html

3. Jean Piaget’s Developmental Approach, pp. 317-318.

Put your understanding of Piaget's cognitive stages to the test by taking this short multiple choice quiz on Piaget’s developmental stages.

http://psychology.about.com/qz/How-Well-Do-You-Know-Piagets-Stages-of-Development

1. Gender roles, pp.338-339.

This short video clip on gender roles in children is a great example of how young children already have a strong sense of what is expected of each of the separate gender roles before they've grown into adults.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VqsbvG40Ww

2. Traditional views of gender, pp. 345-346.

While taking this quiz on “How prone to gender discrimination are you” you will find out how language is influenced by culture and society and how our cultural and social actions are also defined by the way language is used. All these define who we are and how society works.

http://www.quibblo.com/quiz/dZDnSqW/How-prone-to-gender-discrimination-are-you

3. Transvestism, Cross-Dressing, or . . . ? p. 356.

More than a century after Hirschfeld’s initial publication, prejudice toward cross-dressing still has not disappeared.

1. Classification and Description of Personality Disorders, pp. 372-373.

This short 8-minute video offers a great visual overview of what personality disorders are all about.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Xv593jgyJ4

2. Narcissistic Personality Disorder, pp. 377-378.

This 40-question quiz is based on the Narcissistic Personality Inventory.

http://psychcentral.com/quizzes/narcissistic.htm

3. Suicide Prevention, pp. 393-394.

This less-than-4-minute video clip presents teen age suicide signs to be aware of and provides suggestions for how you can handle the situation should you be confronted with it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BByqa7bhto

1. The Stressor, pp. 408-409.

Take this stress and anxiety quiz to determine if there is too much stress in your life.

http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/quizzes/take_quiz/8

2. Identifying Adaptive Coping Strategies, pp. 415-416.

Watch this 14-minute video for a good overview on adaptive coping strategies used with stress in order to maintain good health.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdYjOGtiQFA

3. Relaxation Techniques, pp. 420-421.

This 3-minute video clip presents five different popular relaxation techniques that you can try at home.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d97DRA9494U