Veidlapa Nr. M-3 (8)
Study Course Description
Personality Psychology
Course Code
HZK_004
Branch of Science
Psychology; Psychology of Personality
ECTS
3.00
Target Audience
Medicine
LQF
Level 7
Study Type And Form
Full-Time
Study Course Implementer
Course Supervisor
Vents Sīlis
Structure Unit Manager
Ieva Puzo
Structural Unit
Faculty of Social Sciences
Contacts
Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szf@rsu.lv
About Study Course
Objective
The course introduces students to the main personality theories of the 20th century.
The objectives of the course are to form an understanding of the main personality theories and to develop students’ ability to analyze and apply main concepts used in these theories to particular case studies.
Preliminary Knowledge
No previous knowledge is required.
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge
1.The student will be able 1) to grasp the main ideas of the personality theories, 2) to define the main concepts used in these theories and 3) to describe the historical development of the personality psychology.
Skills
1.The student will be able 1) to to compare and evaluate the personality theories; 2) to choose the most appropriate theory in order to apply it to the individual cases and 3) to use appropriate concepts in order to describe personality. In addition to this, 4) the student will be able to evaluate the weak and strong aspects of each personality theory.
Competences
1.The student will be able to understand, analyze and apply the most relevant concepts of personality theories. Student has improved her communicative (group work and discussions) and cognitive (individual work and the exam) competences.
Assessment
Individual work
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Preparation for seminar classes reading seminar texts before the classes, summarizing, interpreting and analyzing the relevant text. At the end of the course students take the course evaluation survey on e-studies.
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Examination
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Knowledge is assessed on a 10-point scale: work in seminars – 60% (including both individual and group work); examination – 40%.
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Study Course Theme Plan
FULL-TIME
Part 1
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2
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Psychoanalytical Theory: Sigmund Freud
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Psychoanalytical Theory: Sigmund Freud
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2
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Analytical Psychology: Carl Gustav Jung
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Analytical Psychology: Carl Gustav Jung
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2
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Individual Psychology: Alfred Adler and Relational Approaches to Personality: Horney
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Adler’s Individual Psychology
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2
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Trait Theories of Personality: Allport and Evolutionary Psychology
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Relational Approaches to Personality: Horney
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2
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Phenomenological Theory: Carl Rodgers’s Person-Centered Theory of Personality
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Trait Theories of Personality: Allport and Evolutionary Psychology
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Biheviorism and Social-Cognitive Approaches to Personality
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Evolutionary Psychology
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Phenomenological Theory: Carl Rodgers’s Person-Centered Theory of Personality
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Biheiviorism: Skinner
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Social-cognitive Approach: Bandura
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Theory Overview and Comparison
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Total ECTS (Creditpoints):
3.00
Contact hours:
32 Academic Hours
Final Examination:
Exam
Bibliography
Required Reading
1.
Gaines, S. Jr. 2019. Personality Psychology: The Basics. Routledge: Taylor & Francis.
2.
Mārtinsone, K., Lasmane, A., Karpova, Ā. 2016. Psiholoģijas vēsture. Rīga: Zvaigzne ABC. (attiecas tikai uz latviešu plūsmas studijām)
Additional Reading
1.
Cervone, D., Pervin A.L. (Eds.) 2019. Personality. Theory and Research, 14th edition. New Yersey: John Wiley & Sons.
2.
Haulwen, N. 2020. The Book of Personality Tests: 25 Easy to Score Tests that Reveal the Real You (Volume 8). Wellfleet.
3.
Mārtinsone, K., Miltuze, A. 2015. Psiholoģija 1. Pamatjautājumi - teorijas un pētījumi. Rīga: Zvaigzne ABC. (attiecas tikai uz latviešu plūsmas studijām)
4.
Martin, J. 2013. The Psychology of Personhood: Philosophical, Historical, Social-Developmental, and Narrative Perspectives. Cambridge University Press.
Other Information Sources
1.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
2.
Journal of Research in Personality