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Aug 02, 2025
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PSY 2030 - PERSONALITY
credits: 3.0
Personality is the unique pattern of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors typically displayed by an individual. Will acquaint students with the different ways in which psychologists have described, measured, and explained personality. Research evidence on biological and social influences on personality is reviewed. Against this background, various theoretical approaches to personality are examined and compared. Objectives: Will discuss and describe genetic influences on personality, parental and other social influences on personality, personality change and development, personality testing, and psychoanalytic, humanistic, and behavioral and dispositional theories of personality. Method of Instruction: Lecture, supplemented by class discussion, and class reports. Method of Evaluation: Grading will be based on exams and a writing project.
Prerequisite(s): PSY 1010 - INTRODUCTORY PSYCHOLOGY
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