Overview

Description

CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:

Focuses on classic and contemporary theories, conceptual debates, and empirical research in the area of personality. Students with credit for PSYC 270 may not complete this course for further credit

COURSE DETAILS:

Office Hours:  Wednesdays:  13:00 – 14:00 (Other times by appointment)

Tutor Marker(s) [TMs]:  The TMs for the course will be Maeve Cyr (maeve_cyr@sfu.ca) and Taylor Willi (taylor_willi@sfu.ca).  They will be available for consultation to students throughout the semester and in the weeks prior to each midterm.  TM office numbers and office hours will be announced in class and posted on Canvas.  Contact the TMs if you have questions about course content, as well as after exams, if you have questions about marking.  

Midterm Exam:  Each exam will count 25% to your final mark.  Each exam will be 90 minutes in duration. Each midterm exam (as well as the final exam) will have the same structure.  About two-thirds of the test questions will be multiple choice.  The other one-third of the test will be subjective questions requiring a written response (e.g., definitions, short answers, and essay questions). 

 Final Exam: The final exam will have two parts to it.  The first part will be an examination, based on the lecture material and readings from the last one-third of the course.  This first part of the final exam will have the same format as the two midterms, and it will count for 25% of your final grade.  The second part of the final exam will be a cumulative exam on the course and be entirely comprised of multiple choice questions.  It too will count 25% towards your final grade. 

COURSE-LEVEL EDUCATIONAL GOALS:

• Jan. 9 - Course outline and orientation. Introduction to personality theories and theorists: definitions, issues, and characters (read Ch. 1). 
• Jan. 16 - Historical development of psychoanalytic personality theories. Sigmund Freud. (read Ch. 2).
• Jan. 23 - Freudian personality theory and psychoanalysis (cont’d: read Ch. 3).
• Jan. 30 - Carl Jung and Analytic Psychology (read Ch. 4).
• Feb. 6 - MIDTERM EXAM #1. The exam will be based upon the lecture material and Chapters 1, 2, 3, & 4. There will be a lecture or film presentation after the exam.
• Feb. 13 -Ego Psychology: Anna Freud, Heinz Hartmann, and Erik Erikson (read Ch. 5). 
• Feb. 20 - Class cancelled. Reading Week/Reading Break at SFU.  
• Feb. 27 - Neo-Freudians: Alfred Adler, Harry Stack Sullivan, & Karen Horney (read Ch. 6 and Ch. 7 pp. 191-220 only).
• Mar. 6 - Existentialism: R.D. Laing, Irving Yalom & Rollo May (read Ch. 10).
• Mar. 13 - MIDTERM EXAM #2. The exam will be based upon the lecture material and Chapters 5, 6, 7 (pp. 191-220), and 10. There will be a lecture or film presentation after the exam.
• Mar. 20 -  Trait Theory: Gordon Allport, Raymond Cattell, Hans Eysenck, and the Big Five (read Ch. 9).
• Mar. 27 - Humanism: Carl Rogers & Abraham Maslow (read Ch. 11 pp. 356-377 only).
• Apr. 3 - Learning Theories and Behaviourism: Watson to Dollard and Miller. The Radical Behaviorism of B.F. Skinner (read Ch. 12 and 13). Social Cognitive Learning theory of Albert Bandura (read Ch. 15, pp. 499-521 only and Ch. 17).

Grading

Materials

REQUIRED READING: