ATILIM UNIVERSITY
Department of Psychology
PSY 401 PSYCHOLOGY OF PERSONALITY (3-0) 3 (5 ECTS)
2012-2013 SPRING
İlkiz Altınoğlu Dikmeer, PhD, Department of Psychology
Office: Room 314 Faculty of Arts & Sciences, Phone: 586 8218, ilkiz.dikmeer@atilim.edu.tr
Office Hours: Wednesday10:30-12:30
Required reading materials
Monte, C.F., Sollod, R.N. (2003): Beneath the Mask: An Introduction to Theories of Personality, 7th Edition,
Wiley
Other materials, readings and journal articles will be provided by the instructor.
Objectives
The course will provide students with a mastery of the various concepts and their interrelationships within each
personality theory as well as with an appreciation of their empirical bases and their values and limitations. The
major applications of each theory will be presented and discussed. (Prerequisite: PSY 301)
Learning outcomes
To learn personality theories
To be able to evaluate each personality theory on refutability, activity/passivity and idiographic/ nomothetic
dimensions
To be able to compare and contrast personality theories based on their view of human agency and development
of psychopathology
Course format
Class meets twice a week for total of three hours. Class time primarily will be spent on introduction of the day’s
topic and discussion. All students are required to read the assigned chapters before they come to the class
meetings.
Course requirements
Attendence and class participation
2 Mid-term examinations
Final examination
Attendance
All students are required to attend all scheduled classes. Students with more than 30% of the classes (thirteen
(13) hours of absences) will not receive an evaluation.
Class participation
Active and meaningful participation in class discussions are expected.
Mid-term examination
1st mid-term examination assesses the knowledge gained in the first half of the course.
Final examination
Final examination, assessing the overall knowledge gained in the course, covering all of the chapters in the
books, class discussions and all other assignments.
Grading
1st mid-term examination
2nd mid-term examination
Final examination
Class participation
25%
30%
40%
5%
OUTLINE
WEEK 1 Basic Issues and Varieties of Theory
WEEK 2 SIGMUND FREUD / Psychoanalysis: The Clinical Evidence / The Dynamic Model of the Mind
WEEK 3 ALFRED ADLER / Individual Psychology
WEEK 4 CARL G. JUNG / Analytical Psychology
WEEK 5 ANNA FREUD Mothers of Psychoanalytic Ego Psychology
1st MID-TERM
WEEK 6 MELANIE KLEIN, DAVID W. WINNICOTT / The Psychoanalytic Heritage: Object-Relations
Theory
WEEK 7 ERIK ERIKSON / Psychoanalytic Ego Psychology: The Centrality of Identity / HARRY STACK
SULLIVAN / Interpersonal Theory
WEEK 8 KAREN HORNEY / Social Psychoanalytic Psychology /GORDON W. ALLPORT / Humanistic
Trait and Self Theory
WEEK 9 ROLLO MAY / Existential Phenomenology
2nd MID-TERM
WEEK 10 CARL ROGERS & ABRAHAM MASLOW / Humanistic Psychology
WEEK 11 JOHN B. WATSON & B. F. SKINNER / Radical Behaviorisms
WEEK 12 GEORGE KELLY / Personal Construct Theory; ALBERT BANDURA / Social Cognitive Theory
WEEK 13 HANS EYSENCK / Biological Typology /EDWARD O. WILSON / Evolutionary Psychology
FINAL EXAMINATION