Instructor's Manual for

Personality: A Systems Approach

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Download Overview and Focus Lectures for the Course

Below, please find the overview and focus lectures for each chapter of the book.

Part 1: Exploring Personality

 

Chapter

Overview Lectures

Focus Lectures

0. Course opening
 
1. What Is Personality?
  • ppt where is personality
2. Research in Personality Psychology
  • ppt what is measurement
  • ppt where data come from
  • ppt multiple variables
3. Perspectives on Personality
  • ppt concepts in personality
  • ppt biol approach
  • ppt intrapsychic
  • ppt temp-devel

 

Part 2: Parts of Personality

 

Chapter
Overview Lectures
Focus Lectures
4. Motives and Emotions
  • ppt determining motives
  • ppt emotion system
5. Interior Selves; Interior Worlds
  • ppt mental models and the self
  • ppt nature of mental models
  • ppt world and relationships
6. Mental Abilities and Navigating the World
7. The Conscious Self
  • ppt the conscious self
  • ppt free will and voluntary action
  • ppt unconscious alternatives

 

Part 3: Personality Organization

 

Chapter
Overview Lectures
Focus Lectures
8. How the Parts Fit Together
  • ppt nature of structure
  • ppt trait structure
  • ppt levels of awareness
  • ppt processing areas
9. Dynamics of Action
  • ppt dynamics defined
  • ppt igniting motives
  • ppt developing action
  • ppt partial and conflicted acts
  • ppt communication and acts
10. Dynamics of the Self
  • ppt feedback principles
  • ppt nonconscious control
  • ppt mental defense

 

Part 4: Personality Development

 

Chapter
Overview Lectures
Focus Lectures
11. Personality Development in Childhood and Adolescence
  • ppt infancy young child
  • ppt middle childhood adolescence
12. Personality Development in Adulthood
  • ppt love, work, health
  • ppt adjusting course, ultimate aims