Unit Study Guide: Personality and Cognitive Abilities
Important Dates:
02/27: Unit Test (All work for unit due)
Learning Goals:
Learning Goals:
1. Define personality and explain why people’s personalities may be an outcome of nature and or nurture.
2. Describe the assumptions of Freud's psychodynamic approach to personality and explain why it may or may not be valid.
3. Explain some of the neo-Freudian variations on Freud's theory. Include Jung's, Adler's, and Horney's ideas.
4. Compare and contrast trait and type theories of personality.
5. Describe cultural differences in the concept of self. Explain how these differences shape the development of personality.
6. Describe the four general methods of personality assessment.
7. Define cognitive ability and explain how people with different cognitive abilities will differ.
8. Define intelligence. Discuss the reasons that intelligence is so difficult to define.
9. Discuss the history of intelligence testing and the pros and cons of each type of test.
10. Discuss the use and abuse of intelligence testing in the United States in the early 1900s.
11. Explain why IQ may or may not be a definitive measure of intelligence.
12. Describe the differences between an aptitude test and an achievement test.
13. Define norms. Describe their usefulness.
14. Explain why reliability and validity are both important in testing.
15. Explain Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences and list the eight types of intelligences he proposed.
16. Explain how people with learning disabilities may struggle with tasks that other people not have issues with.
Daily Guide: Follow the Guide to Stay Up on Your Work.
Date:
In Class:
Monday
Unit 8 Test
2/9
Tuesday
2/10
1. Personality Test Revisited
2. Interpretation of Personality Test
Wednesday
2/11
1. Quiz
2. Notes: The Psychodynamic Approach to Personality
3. Discussion of the Psychodynamic Approach
Thursday
2/12
1. Quiz
2. Notes: The Trait Approach to Personality
3. Discussion of the Trait Approach
Homework:
Read Pg. 540-541 (End at “The Psychodynamic
Approach”)
-No Quiz Tomorrow!!!
Read (Pg. 541 “The Psychodynamic Approach” to Pg. 547
“The Trait Approach”)
Vocabulary:
-psychodynamic approach, id, libido, pleasure principle,
ego, reality principle, superego, defense mechanisms,
psychosexual phase, oral stage, anal stage, phallic stage,
Oedipus Complex, Electra Complex, latency period,
genital stage
Questions:
1. How does the psychodynamic approach attempt to
define the development of personality?
2. How did Freud’s ideas of the Id, libido, and superego
attempt to define personality?
-Quiz Tomorrow
Read (Pg. 547 “The Trait Approach” to Pg. 555 “The
Social-Cognitive Approach” )
Vocabulary:
-trait approach, big-five model
Questions:
1. How does the trait approach attempt to define the
development of personality?
2. How can the Big-Five model be used to define a
personality?
-Quiz Tomorrow
Read (Pg. 555 “The Social-Cognitive Approach” to Pg.
560 “The Humanistic Approach” )
Vocabulary:
-social-cognitive approach, functional analysis, selfefficacy
Questions:
1. How does the social-cognitive approach attempt to
define the development of personality?
-Quiz Tomorrow
Friday
2/13
1. Quiz
2. Notes: The Social-Cognitive Approach to
Personality
3. Discussion of the Social-Cognitive Approach
Monday
2/16
Tuesday
2/17
No School!!!
Wednesday
2/18
1. Quiz
2. Notes: Personality Assessment
3. Discussion: Personality Assessment
Thursday
2/19
1. Online IQ Testing
2. IQ Testing Essay:
Friday
2/20
1. Discussion: Ethics of Intelligence Testing
2. Uses of Intelligence Testing
3.
Monday
2/23
1. Quiz:
2. Notes: Factors that may impact IQ
3. Discussion: How important is IQ?
4. Ethics Question: Are people with high IQ’s happier?
1. Alternative Intelligence Test
2. Discuss
3. Aptitude Test
4. Discuss
Tuesday
2/24
1. Quiz
2. Notes: The Humanistic Approach to Personality
3. Discussion of The Humanistic Approach
Read (Pg. 560 “The Humanistic Approach” to Pg. 568
“Assessing Personality” )
Vocabulary:
-humanistic approach, actualizing tendencies, self-concept,
conditions of worth, deficiency orientation, growth
orientation
Questions:
1. How does the humanistic approach attempt to define the
development of personality?
2. How does culture play a role in the humanistic approach
to personality?
-Quiz Tuesday
None (Yeah!!!!!)
Read (Pg. 568 “Assessing Personality” to Pg. 572 “End of
Chapter” )
Vocabulary:
-objective personality tests, projective personality tests
Questions:
1. How do objective and projective personality tests
differ?
-Quiz Tomorrow
None
Read (Pg. 360 to Pg. 368 End at “Evaluating Intelligence
Tests”)
Vocabulary:
-cognitive ability, intelligence, Stanford-Binet, IQ Test,
Intelligence Quotient, Aptitude Test, Achievement Test,
Test, Norm, Reliability, Validity
Questions:
1. Why is testing for intelligence considered to be
somewhat controversial?
2. Why might aptitude and achievement tests be more
important than IQ testing?
-Quiz Tomorrow
Read (Pg. 368 “Evaluating Intelligence Tests” to Pg. 380
“Understanding Intelligence”)
Vocabulary:
-none 
Questions:
1. What are some of the factors that might impact a
person’s score on an IQ test?
2. Do you believe that schools should use IQ as a way to
differentiate between students? Why?
-Quiz Monday
None:
Read (Pg. 380 “Understanding Intelligence” to Pg. 388
“Diversity in Cognitive Abilities”)
Vocabulary:
-psychometric approach, g, s, fluid intelligence,
crystallized intelligence, information processing approach,
triarchic theory of intelligence, multiple intelligences
Questions:
1. How might alternative methods of explaining
intelligence be more accurate than traditional IQ?
2. Do you agree with Gardner’s Theory of Multiple
Wednesday
2/25
1. Quiz
2. Further exploring Gardener’s Theory: Your
intelligence (if you have one).
3. Examples of Gardner:
Thursday
2/26
1. Quiz:
2. Discussion: Giftedness
3. Discussion: Mental Retardation
Unit 9 Test
Friday
2/27
intelligences? Why?
-Quiz Tomorrow
Read (Pg. 388 “Diversity in Cognitive Abilities” to Pg.
393 “End of Chapter”)
Vocabulary:
-creativity, divergent thinking, convergent thinking,
metacognition
Questions:
1. What does your book suggest about people who are
gifted?
2. What does your book suggest about people who are
mentally retarded?
-Quiz Tomorrow
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