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PSY230F – Introduction to Personality Contact Information Teaching Assistant: Christina Lee Instructor: Maja Djikic Teaching Assistant: Dawson Overton

Course Description Among the various fields of psychology, the field of personality is perhaps most easily identified with what many lay people think psychology is: the stuff of Freudian slips, dating manuals, selfhelp books, and personality ‘types’. This intrinsic interest in what individuals, including ourselves, are like, what drives us, how we come to be the people we are, whether we can change, what life choices we make and why – these questions easily capture the collective imagination. It is these questions that we will discuss as we learn about personality theories. Prerequisites Prerequisites: PSY100H1/COG250Y1 (formerly UNI250Y) Note about prerequisites: It is your responsibility to ensure that you have met all prerequisites listed in the Psychology section of the A&S Calendar for this course. If you lack prerequisites you will be removed from the course. No waivers will be granted. Visiting students from other universities should have the equivalent prerequisites from their home institutions. If you have any questions about prerequisites, contact the Psychology Department’s undergraduate advisor Tamara Ferguson at [email protected]. Required Reading Material/Textbook(s)

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Engler, B. Personality Theories (8th or 9th edition). Belmont: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning. You can buy the text as a hard copy, loose-leaf, or as an eBook (or e-chapters) directly from the publisher. Also, there will be copies of the text for you on course reserve in Robarts Library (4th fl.) Course Evaluation/Marking Scheme 1. Test 1 (25%): Sept 29th 2. Test 2 (25 %): Oct 27th 3. Test 3 (25%): Dec 1st 4. Essay (25%): Nov 10th Note: There will be no final exam in the examination period

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Details on Assignments 1) Test 1 (25%) Sep 29th Covers Lectures 1, 2, & 3 and the corresponding textbook pages. The test will consist of 50 multiple choice questions. Location: our regular classroom. There will be a class after the test. 2) Test 2 (25%) Oct 27th Covers Lectures 4, 5, & 6 and the corresponding textbook pages. The test will consist of 50 multiple choice questions. Location: our regular classroom. There will be a class after the test. 3) Test 3 (25%) December 1st Covers Lectures 7, 8, 9, & 10 and the corresponding textbook pages. The test will consist of 50 multiple choice questions. Location: our regular classroom. (No class after the test, you can go home, you are done!) 4) Essay (25%): Nov 10th In your essay, you will choose a modern societal problem you find very troubling (or irritating), a personality theorist covered in class (except Skinner & Bandura) you find most fascinating, and write a five-page paper in which you’ll use your psychological knowledge to resolve the problem. (A good mental exercise to get you started on ideas for this essay is to think of yourself as a mayor of a city, and think what problem you’d like to solve using your psychological expertise.) Do not choose a problem that the theorist in question has already explicitly covered! Use at least 3 scientific articles (published in academic journals, year 2004 onward) to support your arguments. If you are unsure whether your essay topic is appropriate, feel free to contact the TA or the instructor. You can think of the essay in the following way: Part 1: Describe the problem; show that it exists, and explain why it is problematic. (Make sure that problem is, or has potential to be, problematic for society (and is not just irritating to you personally. The problem you choose can’t be mental illness, or any problem that the theorist you have chosen has already addressed.) Part 2: How do your theorist’s ideas illuminate (causally) the problem in question? (Try not to summarize the theorists’ arguments, but rather use their concepts to address the problem you have chosen). Please note you can use only ONE theorist in your essay (though you can and should use multiple concepts by that theorist). Part 3: How you would construct the solution to the problem, taking advantage of the theorist’s ideas, but using your own creative solutions at the societal level? Note that the solution is imaginative (you don’t have to show that it works, only that it’s logically related to your analysis and that it could possibly work). You are encouraged to propose multiple solutions, as long as they are logically related to the previous analytic part. (Here you should demonstrate original content, however, and not just restate or summarize an argument or viewpoint of another person. For this purpose you may write in the first person - “It is my thesis that….” “I propose…” “I believe…” - to help to delineate what belongs to whom. The clearer the distinction the easier it is to recognize, and give you credit for, your original contribution.)

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A very condensed example would be: Part 1: Many people use cell phones in restaurants when they dine alone, and that disrupts everyone else’s experience. Part 2: According to Freud’s concept of Oedipal complex (and/or defense mechanism, etc., etc.), these individuals could be rebelling against authority/society (a symbolic father-figure), and the unexpressed anger is channeled in being socially disruptive in ways that challenge authority figure. OR According to Buss (evolutionary theory), people’s need to belong is so strong they will use the phone if they are alone at the table, so as not to feel isolated and lonely. Part 3: The education system could provide more focus on sports during adolescence in order to relieve aggression in socially appropriate ways. Restaurants could place a punching bag just in front of the entrance to the restauraunt, so that people can get aggression ‘out of their system’ before they enter the restaurant, etc. OR Restaurants will place individual diners at a larger table with other individual diners, which will encourage sense of belonging and therefore less use of cell phones. Finally, please read ‘Essay Guideline’ on Blackboard – it gives many tips about formatting and common errors that you can easily avoid. Submission details: Five double-spaced pages (not including references & title page). Do not include abstract or subsections (such as ‘Method’ or ‘Discussion’ or Part 1/2/3). For style, conform to the APA Publication Manual (6th edition). Resources concerning getting help with your writing (writing labs, how not to plagiarize, etc.), & an APA sample paper, are posted on the Blackboard. For more about APA style, visit http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/. Submit your paper through the Blackboard (do NOT e-mail your paper to the instructor or the TAs). Under ‘Assignments’ you will find ‘Essay’ link. Click on the link, and attach your file. Please make sure the submitted essay is in a Word document format. Please name your file lastname_firstname.docx Late penalty is 5% per day. No late papers will be accepted after 1 week, unless with appropriate official documentation.

Course Webpage/Blackboard The website associated with this course is accessible via http://portal.utoronto.ca . If you have trouble accessing it, please let me know as soon as possible, since your lectures, and assignments, including the submission and the return of the essay, will be processed through the Blackboard.

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Course Outline/Schedule Date Lecture 1

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(September 8 )

Lecture 2

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(September 15 )

Lecture 3

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(September 22 )

Lecture 4

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(September 29 )

Lecture 5 th

(October 6 )

October 13th Lecture 6 th

(October 20 )

Lecture 7

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(October 27 )

Lecture 8

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(November 3 )

Lecture 9

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(November 10 )

November 17th Lecture 10 th

(November 24 )

Lecture 11

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Topic/Assignments Introduction/Psychoanalysis (Freud) The Neopsychoanalytic Approach (Jung/Adler) Psychoanalytic Social Psychology (Horney/Fromm) TEST 1/ Behavior and Learning theories (Skinner/Bandura) Trait & Factor Analytic Theories (Allport/Murray/Cattell/Costa&McCrae) THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY Evolutionary & Genetic Theories (Buss) Biological theories (Eysenck) TEST 2/ Cognitive theories (Kelly/Ellis) Humanistic theories (Maslow/Rogers) ESSAY DUE/ Existential theories (May) NOVEMBER BREAK A non-western approach/Personality transformation TEST 3

Readings 8th ed. (pp.28-65) 9th ed. (pp.27-59) 8th ed. (pp.68-107) 9th ed. (pp.63-98) 8th ed. (pp.121-146) 9th ed. (pp.110-132) 8th ed. (pp.217-251) 9th ed. (pp.197-226) 8th ed. (pp.262-298) 9th ed. (pp.237-271) NO CLASS 8th ed. (pp.299-345) 9th ed. (pp.271-318) 8th ed. (pp.406-435) 9th ed. (pp.377-402) 8th ed. (pp.349-373) 9th ed. (pp.322-343) 8th ed. (pp.380-404) 9th ed. (pp.351-373) NO CLASS 8th ed. (pp.457-463) 9th ed. (pp.424-429) You are done!

(December 1 )

Course Policies Missed Tests If you miss a term test, please submit the ‘The Verification of Student Illness or Injury’ form within one week of missing the test to me or the TA. Medical documentation must show that the physician was consulted within one the day of the missed term test. NOTE: an email from the student’s College registrar’s office will also suffice as appropriate documentation. After the documentation is received, your mark will be re-distributed to other assignments. If you miss more than 1 test, you will be given a make-up for both tests you’ve missed. Penalties for Lateness Please note that late penalty for your essay is 5% a day. If you fall ill around the time of submission, and have the necessary medical documentation, the maximum extension you can receive without penalty is 2 days.

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Academic Resources Accessibility Needs: Students with diverse learning styles and needs are welcome in this course. In particular, if you have a disability/health consideration that may require accommodations, please feel free to approach me and/or Accessibility Services at (416) 978 8060; http://www.accessibility.utoronto.ca. Writing: As a student here at the University of Toronto, you are expected to write well. The university provides its students with a number of resources to help them achieve this. For more information on campus writing centres and writing courses, please visit http://www.writing.utoronto.ca/. Academic Integrity and Plagiarism: Academic integrity is essential to the pursuit of learning and scholarship in a university, and to ensuring that a degree from the University of Toronto is a strong signal of each student’s individual academic achievement. As a result, the University treats cases of cheating and plagiarism very seriously. The University of Toronto’s Code of Behaviour on Academic Matters (www.governingcouncil.utoronto.ca/policies/behaveac.htm) outlines the behaviours that constitute academic dishonesty and the processes for addressing academic offences. All suspected cases of academic dishonesty will be investigated following procedures outlined in the Code of Behaviour on Academic Matters. If you have questions or concerns about what constitutes appropriate academic behaviour or appropriate research and citation methods, you are expected to seek out additional information on academic integrity from your instructor or from other institutional resources (see www.utoronto.ca/academicintegrity/resourcesforstudents.html). Other Resources: Student Life Programs and Services (http://www.studentlife.utoronto.ca/) Academic Success Services (http://www.asc.utoronto.ca/) Counselling and Psychological Services (http://www.caps.utoronto.ca/main.htm)

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