Chapter 8 Objectives:
Chapter 13 Objectives:
- Describe how behavior is influenced by roles, norms, and obedience.
- Summarize the principles and components of attribution theory.
- Define attitudes including a discussion of the relationship of attitudes to behavior and factors influencing attitudes.
- List and describe factors that influence an individual's behavior in a group.
- Describe conditions that influence when a person is likely to dissent from a group or demonstrate altruistic behavior.
- Define ethnocentrism and explain its consequences.
- Explain the benefits and drawbacks to the use of stereotypes.
- Identify factors that lead to the formation and maintenance of prejudice.
- Discuss approaches for reducing prejudice and conflict between groups.
Chapter 13 Objectives:
- Define personality.
- Compare and contrast the psychodynamic, trait, genetic, environmental, cultural and humanistic approaches to the study of personality.
- Describe Freud's structure of personality and psychosexual stages of personality development.
- List common defense mechanisms and explain their role in personality.
- Discuss the challenges to psychoanalytic theory made by Horney, Jung and the object-relations school.
- Differentiate between the types of traits proposed by Allport and the specific traits of the "Big Five."
- Discuss the issue of heritability of personality, temperament, and traits.
- Describe and evaluate the key components of the social-cognitive learning approach.
- Discuss how culture influences how we define ourselves and our personality.
- Summarize the principles of humanistic psychology proposed by Maslow, Rogers, and May.