7.3

Personality Theories

AP Psychology

Psychoanalytic/Psychodynamic perspective

Sigmund Freud

Structure of personality

Levels of consciousness

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Psychosexual stages

Defense mechanisms

Neo-Freudians

Criticisms of psychoanalytic theory

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Humanistic perspective

Abraham Maslow

Carl Rogers

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Criticisms of humanistic psychology

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Trait perspective

Gordon Allport

Hans Eysenck

The Big Five (OCEAN)

Criticisms of trait perspective

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Social-cognitive perspective

Albert Bandura

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Julian Rotter — Locus of control

Learned helplessness (Seligman)

Personality assessment

Self-report inventories

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Projective tests

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The person-situation debate

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AP Exam Tips

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Common Mistakes

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Key Vocabulary