How do parents contribute to their children's personality development
psychology
Description
How do parents contribute to
their children's personality development, according to Adler? What parental
behaviors does he warn against?
Jean says her earliest memory
is of being lost at a family picnic. Discuss this memory from the perspective
of Adler's theory
Select one of Erikson's first
four stages of development. What crisis occurs at that stage? What ego strength
develops? How does culture support that ego strength?
Describe Cattell's 16PF. Why is
it said to measure source traits, rather than surface traits?
Discuss Allport's concept of
functional autonomy. Explain how this concept differs from Freud's views.
Explain the difference between
healthy and neurotic use of the interpersonal orientations.
Discuss the strengths and
weaknesses of psychobiography as an approach to understanding personality.
Explain the disagreement
between Adler and Freud about the importance of the unconscious.
List and describe some ways
that brain functioning contributes to personality.
List and describe the stages of
personality development, according to Allport's theory. How do these stages
illustrate Allport's interest in the unity of the self?
