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Personality Psychology
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:7.00
Study Course Accepted:02.02.2024 12:29:38
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | HZK_004 | LQF level: | Level 7 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Psychology; Psychology of Personality | Target Audience: | Medicine | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Vents Sīlis | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szf rsu[pnkts]lv | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 6 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 12 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 10 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 20 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 32 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | No previous knowledge is required. | ||||||||
| 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. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Psychoanalytical Theory: Sigmund Freud | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 2 | Analytical Psychology: Carl Gustav Jung | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 3 | Individual Psychology: Alfred Adler and Relational Approaches to Personality: Horney | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | Adler’s Individual Psychology | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | Trait Theories of Personality: Allport and Evolutionary Psychology | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 6 | Relational Approaches to Personality: Horney | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 7 | Phenomenological Theory: Carl Rodgers’s Person-Centered Theory of Personality | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 8 | Trait Theories of Personality: Allport and Evolutionary Psychology | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 9 | Biheviorism and Social-Cognitive Approaches to Personality | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 10 | Evolutionary Psychology | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 11 | Phenomenological Theory: Carl Rodgers’s Person-Centered Theory of Personality | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 12 | Biheiviorism: Skinner | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 13 | Social-cognitive Approach: Bandura | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 14 | Theory Overview and Comparison | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | 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. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | Knowledge is assessed on a 10-point scale: work in seminars – 60% (including both individual and group work); examination – 40%. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | 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: | 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. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | 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. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| 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 | ||||||||
