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SCHEDULE OF LECTURES, DISCUSSIONS, AND READINGS

Spring 2002

Class	Date		Topic	Readings
1	Monday 2/11		Introduction and logistics	Text: Chapter 1
Research methods in personality psychology
2	Wednesday 2/13		Theory and Research in Personality	Text: Chapters 2 & 3
Disc. 1	Thursday 2/14		Introduction and logistics
3	Monday 2/18		Variability in behavioral research	*Horowitz (1974)
The Psychoanalytic Approach
4	Wednesday 2/20		Dynamics of personality	Text: Chapter 10: pp. 251-261; 273-281 Text: Chapter 11 Readings: Freud, pp. 227-235
Disc. 2	Thursday 2/22		The correlation coefficient	*Horowitz (1974) (review)
5	Monday 2/25		Freud and women	Text: Chapter 10, pp. 261-273 *Freud: "Katharina" *Westerlund (1986)
6	Wednesday 2/27		Freud: Relevant research	Readings: pp. 250-265
Disc 3	Thursday 2/28		Dream analysis exercise	*Porter (1987): Chapters 6, 7, & 8 See course web site for instructions.
The Neo-Analytic Approach
7	Monday 3/4		Alfred Adler	Text: Chapter 12
8	Wednesday 3/6		Carl Jung	Text: Chapter 12 Readings: Jung, pp. 272-276
Disc. 4	Thursday 3/7		Early recollections exercise	*Mosak (1958) *Adler (1964) See course web site for instructions.
9	Monday 3/11		Jung and Adler: Relevant research
10	Wednesday 3/13		EXAM 1
The Trait Approach
Disc. 5	Thursday 3/14		Scale development exercise
11	Monday 3/18		Factor analysis and the Trait approach	Text: Chapter 4 Readings: McCrae et al., pp. 120-131 Readings: Allport, pp. 73-76 Readings: Mischel, pp. 77-90
12	Wednesday 3/20		Personality Assessment	Text: Chapter 5
Wednesday, March 20th–Term paper 1 due
Disc. 6	Thursday 3/21		Scale development exercise
	March 25-29		SPRING BREAK
13	Monday 4/1		Personality Assessment	Text: Chapter 5 Readings: Cronbach et al., pp. 27-35
The Biological approach
14	Wednesday 4/3		The Biological approach	Text: Chapters 8 & 9
Disc. 7	Thursday 4/4		Factor analysis	See course web site instructions.
15	Monday 4/8		The Biological approach	Text: Chapter 8 &9
The Humanistic approach
16	Wednesday 4/10		Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow	Text: Chapter 13 Readings: Sartre, pp. 295-302 Readings: Maslow, pp. 315-325 Readings: Rogers, pp.326-337
Disc. 8	Thursday 4/11		Scale development exercise
17		Monday 4/15	EXAM 2
The Cognitive-Behavioral approach
18		Wednesday 4/17	Behaviorism and Social learning	Text: Chapters 15 Readings: Skinner, pp.425-432 Readings: Skinner, pp.433-438
Disc. 9		Thursday 4/18	Scale development exercise
19		Monday 4/22	Behaviorism and Social learning	Text: Chapters 16 Readings: Bandura et al., pp. 448-456 Readings: Rotter, pp. 439-447
The Cognitive approach
20		Wednesday 4/24	George Kelly and Relevant research
Disc. 10		Thursday 4/25	Scale development exercise
Gender and culture in Personality Psychology
21		Monday 4/29	Scale development exercise data analysis demonstration and results and discussion	APA guidelines in WWW course page
22		Wednesday 5/1	Gender and Personality
Disc. 11		Thursday 5/2	Scale development paper Q&A session
23		Monday 5/6	Culture and personality	Text: Chapter 14 Readings: Markus et al., pp. 365-377
24		Wednesday 5/8	Conclusion	Text: Chapter 19
Disc. 12		Thursday 12/5	To be announced
Friday, May 10th—Paper 2 due