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Module 00
Don’t Miss Module 00
0.1
Learning Goals for this Module (Chapter 0)
0.2
To-Do List
0.3
Course Modality
0.3.1
Productivity During Lockdown
0.4
Knowledge is Power
0.5
Meet Mason
0.6
Website Tour
Syllabus
I Module 01
1
Welcome to Personality
1.1
Learning Goals
1.2
Module Materials
1.2.1
Explore
1.2.2
Engage
1.2.3
Evaluate
2
Lecture: What is Personality?
2.1
What is Personality? (01.01)
2.2
What do personality psychologists do? (01.02)
2.3
Does personality really matter? (01.03.01)
2.3.1
Milgram Experiment (01.03.02)
2.4
How do we define personality? (01.04)
2.5
Personality Paradigms (01.05)
3
Extra: What’s My Personality?
3.1
Big Five Inventory
3.2
SAPA Project
II Module 02
4
Welcome to Personality Methods
4.1
Learning Goals
4.2
Module Materials
4.2.1
Explore
4.2.2
Engage
4.2.3
Evaluate
5
Lecture: Personality Research Methods
5.1
Clues to Personality (02.01)
5.2
Self Data (02.02.01)
5.3
Informant Data (02.02.02)
5.4
Life Outcome and Behavioral Data (02.03)
5.5
Data Quality (02.04)
5.6
Introducing Validity and What’s a construct? (02.05)
5.7
Generalizability (02.06)
5.8
Causal Inference and Generalizability in Action (02.07)
5.9
Research Designs (02.08)
5.10
Correlational Methods (02.09)
III Module 03
6
Welcome to Personality Assessment
6.1
Learning Goals
6.2
Module Materials
6.2.1
Explore
6.2.2
Engage
6.2.3
Evaluate
6.2.4
Extras
7
Lecture: Personality Assessment
7.1
Roadmap for personality assessment (03.01)
7.2
Projective Tests (03.02)
7.3
Rational Objective Tests (03.03)
7.4
Objective Tests and Factor Analysis (03.04)
7.5
Empirical Test Construction (03.05)
7.6
Significance Testing (03.06)
7.7
Effect Size (03.07)
7.8
Personality Testing Ethics (03.08)
7.9
More problems (03.09)
IV Module 04
8
Welcome to Traits, Situations, & Behavior
8.1
Learning Goals
8.2
Module Materials
8.2.1
Explore
8.2.2
Engage
8.2.3
Evaluate
9
Lecture: Person vs. Situation?
9.1
Person vs Situation (04.01)
9.2
Extra Context about the Person Versus Situation Debate (04.02)
9.3
What’s this debate anyway? (04.03)
9.4
Personality and Life (04.04)
V Module 5
10
Welcome to Personality Judgment
10.1
Learning Goals
10.1.1
Chapter 5:
10.2
Module Materials
10.2.1
Explore
10.2.2
Engage
10.2.3
Evaluate
10.2.4
Estimated Video Length
11
Lecture: What is Judgment?
11.1
Personality Judgment (5.01)
11.2
Moderators of Accuracy (5.02)
VI Module 06
12
Welcome to Trait Theory
12.1
Learning Goals
12.2
Module Materials
12.2.1
Explore
12.2.2
Engage
12.2.3
Evaluate
12.2.4
Estimated Video Length
13
Lecture: What is Trait Theory?
13.1
Personality Traits Roadmap (06.01)
13.2
The Single- and Multi-Trait Approaches (06.02)
13.3
The Psychology of Narcissim (06.02b)
13.4
The Essential Trait Approach (06.03)
13.5
Big 5 Factors (06.04)
13.6
Personality Types (06.05)
VII Module 07
14
Welcome to Personality Stability, Development, and Change
14.1
Learning Goals
14.2
Module Materials
14.2.1
Explore
14.2.2
Engage
14.2.3
Evaluate
14.2.4
Estimated Video Length
15
Lecture: Personality over Time
15.1
Personality over the Lifespan (07.01)
15.2
Personality Stability (07.02)
15.3
Personality Development (07.03)
15.4
Personality Change (07.04)
15.5
Narrative Identity (07.05)
15.6
Dan P. McAdams at TEDxHendrixCollege: “In the Beginning” and “Once upon a Time” (07.06)
VIII Module 08
16
Welcome to Anatomy and Physiology of Personality
16.1
Learning Goals
16.2
Module Materials
16.2.1
Explore
16.2.2
Engage
16.2.3
Evaluate
16.2.4
Estimated Video Length
17
Lecture: Biopsych and personality
17.1
Brains! (08.01)
17.2
Brain-Based Research Methods (08.02)
17.3
Brain Parts (08.03)
17.4
The Frontal Lobe, Phineas Gage, and Psychosurgery (08.04)
17.5
The Biochemistry of Personality (08.05)
17.6
Hormones! (08.06)
IX Module 09
18
Welcome to Behavior Genetics
18.1
Learning Goals
18.2
Module Materials
18.2.1
Explore
18.2.2
Engage
18.2.3
Evaluate
18.2.4
Estimated Video Length
19
Lecture: What is Behavior Genetics?
19.1
Introduction to Behavior Genetics (09.01)
19.2
What is Heritability? (09.02)
19.3
What Heritability Tells You (09.03)
19.4
Molecular Genetics and Interactions with the Environment (09.04)
X Module 10
20
Welcome to Evolutionary Psychology
20.1
Learning Goals
20.2
Module Materials
20.2.1
Explore
20.2.2
Engage
20.2.3
Evaluate
20.2.4
Estimated Video Length
21
Lecture: What is Evolutionary Psychology?
21.1
Introduction to Evolutionary Psychology (10.01)
21.1.1
What is Evolution? (10.01B)
21.1.2
What is Natural Selection? (10.01C)
21.2
Evolutionary Personality Psychology (10.02)
21.3
Individual Differences in Evolutionary Psychology (10.03)
21.4
Criticisms of Evolutionary Psychology (10.04)
22
Evolutionary Psych Extras
XI Module 11
23
Welcome to Cultural Variation in Experience, Behavior, and Personality
23.1
Learning Goals
23.2
Module Materials
23.2.1
Explore
23.2.2
Engage
23.2.3
Evaluate
23.2.4
Estimated Video Length
24
Lecture: What is Cross-Cultural Psychology?
24.1
Introduction Cross-Cultural Psychology (11.01)
24.2
Characteristics of Cultures (11.02)
24.3
Assessment of Culture and Personality (11.03)
24.4
The Origins of Cultural Differences (11.04)
24.5
Challenges and New Directions for Cross-Cultural Research (11.05)
XII Module 12
25
Welcome to Basics of Psychoanalysis
25.1
Learning Goals
25.2
Module Materials
25.2.1
Explore
25.2.2
Engage
25.2.3
Evaluate
25.2.4
Estimated Video Length
26
Lecture: Basic Psychoanalysis
26.1
Freud and the Basics of Psychoanalysis (12.01)
26.2
The Key Ideas of Psychoanalysis (12.02)
26.3
Psychoanalysis, Life, and Death (12.03)
26.4
Psychosexual Development (12.04)
26.5
Thinking and Consciousness (12.05)
26.6
Anxiety and Defense (12.06)
26.7
Psychoanalysis as Therapy and Theory (12.07)
26.8
Why Study Freud? (12.08)
XIII Module 13
27
Welcome to Psychoanalysis After Freud
27.1
Learning Goals
27.2
Module Materials
27.2.1
Explore
27.2.2
Engage
27.2.3
Evaluate
27.2.4
Estimated Video Length
28
Lecture: Psychoanalysis After Freud
28.1
Psychology and Modern Psychoanalysis (13.01)
28.2
Inferiority & Compensation + Feminine Psychology (13.02)
28.3
The Collective Unconscious, Persona, and Personality (13.03)
28.4
Psychosocial Development (13.04)
28.5
Current Psychoanalytic Research (13.05)
28.5.1
Discussion of Animal Attachment Research (13.05B)
28.5.2
Illustration of the attachment study paradigm (13.05C)
28.6
Psychoanalysis in Perspective (13.06)
XIV Module 14
29
Welcome to Personality Processes, Positive Psychology, and the Science of Happiness
29.1
Learning Goals
29.1.1
Positive Psychology
29.1.2
Personality Processes
29.2
Module Materials
29.2.1
Explore
29.2.2
Engage
29.2.3
Evaluate
29.2.4
Estimated Video Length
30
Lecture: Processes and Positives!
30.1
Introducing Personality Processes and Positive Psychology (14.01)
30.2
The Historical Roots of Personality Processes (14.02)
30.3
Processes of Perception (14.03)
30.4
Processes of Thought and Consciousness (14.04)
30.5
Ways of Thinking (14.05)
30.6
Motivation & Goals (14.06)
30.7
Motivation Strategies (14.07)
30.8
Emotion (14.08)
30.9
Happiness and Positive Psychology (14.09)
XV Module 15
31
Welcome to Mental and Physical Health
31.1
Learning Goals
31.2
Module Materials
31.2.1
Explore
31.2.2
Engage
31.2.3
Evaluate
31.2.4
Estimated Video Length
32
Lecture: How are Personality and Health related!
32.1
Roadmap to Personality and Health (15.01)
32.2
Defining Personality Disorders (15.02)
32.3
Major Personality Disorders (15.03)
32.4
Ordering the (Personality) Disorder (15.04)
32.5
Personality & Physical Health (15.05)
32.6
The Healthy Personality (15.06)
Module Last
Don’t Miss The Last Module
32.7
Important Wake Forest Stuff
XVI Other Coolness
33
Good Resources
33.1
Ten simple rules for getting started on Twitter as a scientist
References
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Personality Psychology
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