Date

Topic

Assigned Readings—to be completed BEFORE this class period.

Material Due

Today

01/13

Introduction to Personality Psychology

01/15

Cont’d

Chapter 1

Hw1

01/20

Personality Assessment, Measurement, and Research Design

Chapter 2

01/22

Cont’d

Hw2

01/27

Exam 1

01/29

Traits and Trait Taxonomies

Chapter 3

02/03

Cont’d

Hw3

02/05

Theoretical and Measurement Issues in Trait Psychology

Chapter 4

02/10

Cont’d

Hw4

02/12

Personality Dispositions over Time: Stability, Change, and Coherence

Chapter 5

02/17

Cont’d

Hw5

02/19

Exam 2

02/24

Genetics of Personality

Chapter 6

02/26

Cont’d

Hw6

03/03

Physiological Approaches to Personality

Chapter 7

03/05

Cont’d

03/10

Evolutionary Perspectives on Personality

Chapter 8

Hw7

03/12

Exam 3

SPRING BREAK

03/24

Psychoanalytic Approaches to Personality

Chapter 9

03/26

The Neo-Analytic Movement

Pp. 323-329

03/31

Memory Repression

Loftus article (online)

Hw8

04/02

Motives and Personality

Chapter 11

Hw9

04/07

Maslow

04/09

Rogers

Hw10

04/14

Exam 4

04/16

Personality and Social Interaction

Chapter 15

04/21

Cont’d

Hw11

04/23

Cont'd

Hw12

04/28

Disorders of Personality

Chapter 19

04/30

Cont’d

Hw13

05/05

Cont’d

05/07

Exam 5

Final Paper is due on Friday, May 15th at Noon