Overview
Lecturer
Cornel-Victor Igna
Seminar tutor
Cornel-Victor Igna
Type of course
Elective (1 of 3)
Language of instruction
Romanian
Erasmus language
English
Domain
Education Sciences
Field of study
Pedagogy of primary and preschool education
Form of education
Full-time
Form of instruction
Class
Credit awarded by
Grade
Teaching methods
Lecture, Debate, Problematization, Examples and case studies, Learning by discovery
Entry requirements
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Aims
Identification of the main methods regarding the knowledge of the students' personality
To explain the historical circumstances and the scientific framework in which the new discipline was born and the knowledge needs to which this discipline responds
To have well-structured information on the main theories of personality with emphasis on the latest developments in the field
Course contents
1. Knowledge of personality. Personality. General definition and characterization. Perspectives of knowing the person. The personality dimensions
2. The beginnings of personality theories. Plato. Hippocrates, Galen. Singing, Wundt, Heymans. Pavlov
3. Body typologies and theories regarding the biological basis of personality. Kretschmer and Sheldon, Robert Plomin, Hans Eysenck, Robert. Cloninger, David M. Buss
4. Psychoanalytic theories. Sigmund Freud, Carl Gustav Jung
5. Psychoanalytic theories. Alfred Adler, Otto Rank, Melanie Klein, Karl Abraham, Harry Stack Sullivan, Karen Danielson Horney, Erik Erikson, Leopold Szondi, Henry Murray
6. Behavioral and cognitive theories of personality. John Broadus Watson, Burrhus F. Skinner, George Alexander Kelly
7. Social theories of personality. Julian Rotter, Albert Bandura, Walter Mischel.
8. Theories of personality traits: Gordon W Allport, Factorial Theories: Raymond B. Cattell, Hans J. Eysenck, Hans Eysenck, Robert R. McCrae & Paul T. Costa Jr., Arnold Buss, Robert Plomin
9. Humanist theories of personality. Abraham Maslow, Carl Rogers, Rollo May
10. Cultural theories and the integrative model of personality. Edward Sapir, Abraham Kardiner, Ralph Linton, Ruth Fulton Benedict, Margaret Mead, Gerard Hendrik Hofstede
11. Other personality components. Intelligence and skills. The character
12. Psychometric methods for identifying personality dimensions. Elaboration of questionnaires and psychometrics. Psychometry of the trait group: factorial analysis. The limits of factorial analysis
13.Personality and health. Stress and health. The link between personality, stress, illness and lifestyle Somatization as a risk factor in many diseases
14. Personality disorders - concept and classification
Learning outcomes
grade
Assessment
Written paper Seminar evaluation sheet
Recommended reading
) Personality, description, dynamics and development
Cloninger, S. F
Freeman, New York, 1998
The Cambridge Handbook of Personality Psychology. - http://gtu.ge/Agro-Lib/PersonalityPsychology.pdf
Corr P. J., Matthews
University Press, Cambridge, 2009
Social and personality development: Infancy through Adolescence
Damon William
Norton & Company, New York, 1983