PY3108 - Personality and Individual Psychology
| Credit points: | 03 |
| Year: | 2008 |
| Student Contribution Band: | Band 1 |
| Administered by: | Discipline of Psychology |
In this subject there will be a specific focus on theories and assessment methods for studying the lives of individuals in detail, including contributions from psychoanalytic, cognitive, behavioural, trait and narrative psychologies.The subject will begin by addressing philosophical issues, since these are especially critical in shaping both theory and method in the area of personality. An overview of the major theoretical paradigms of personality psychology will be presented in the first half of the subject, including reference to the work of S. Freud, C. Jung, Henry Murrey, H.J. Eysenck, George Kelly, Abraham Maslow, Sylvan Tomkins, Dan McAdams, Gary Gregg and others. The second half of the subject will be devoted to a coverage of contemporary and emerging approaches to the conceptualisation and measurement of personality with a focus on the narrative study of individual lives.
Learning Outcomes
- assist students to make connections between personality theory and assessment and the kinds of applied social and practical problems which they might encounter in professional life;
- familiarisation with a range of assessment tools for studying personality and to provide students with first hand experience in the use of some of these tools via practicals and a research project;
- familiarisation with contemporary theoretical developments and emerging trends in the conceptualisation and assessment of personality.
| Prerequisites: | (PY1001 or PY1101) and (PY1002 or PY1102) and PY2103 |
| Inadmissible Subject Combinations: | PY3094 |
Availabilities | |
| Townsville, Block, Study Period 6 | |
| Census Date 27-Jun-2008 | |
| Face to face teaching (Lectures, tutorials will be taught in block mode. Exams will be held in the week beginning 28 July.) | |
| Coord/Lect: | Dr Peter Raggatt. |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (40%); seminar (20%); (40%). |
| Cairns, Internal, Study Period 2 | |
| Census Date 05-Sep-2008 | |
| Coord/Lect: | Assoc. Professor Deborah Graham. |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (30%); seminar (20%); (50%). |
Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.