Educational Psychology

Objectives

1. To know the historical and philosophical perspective of the study of personality

2. To understand cultural differences in understanding personality

3. To acquire knowledge about personality models and theories

4. To think about contemporary trends in personality psychology

5. To differentiate personality disorders

6. To cooperate with others in research projects, based on the knowledge acquired during the Psychology of Personality CU, in order to identify research questions, collect data, interpret results, infer conclusions and streamline the discussion on the topics investigated.

Program

1.       Concept of personality

Historical and philosophical approaches to the concept of Personality

Personality and cultural differences

Psychometric definition of personality

The consistency of personality and the dialectic state-trait

Trace theory (fundamentals)

The Big Five Theory

2.       Personality Models

Psychodynamic models

Phenomenological / Humanistic models

Behavioral / Cognitive models

Integrative models, narratives and life stories

3.       Contemporary trends in personality psychology

4.       Personality disorders

Groupings of personality disorders: Types A, B, C

Characteristics and differential diagnosis of the main personality disorders

Teaching Methodologies

The methodologies privilege from theoretical exposure to active methodologies that go through the critical discussion of cases, research proposals and presentation of exploratory studies, based on the activation of a reflexive attitude in a learning space that questions students in their process of knowledge construction. The evaluation methods include three elements: a test (50%); an exploratory group research (35%); participation throughout the semester (15%).

Bibliography

American Psychiatric Association (2014). Manual de Diagnóstico e estatística das perturbações mentais (DSM- 5) (5ª ed.). Climpesi.

Cervone, D., & Pervin, L. A. (2019). Personality: Theory and research (14th ed.). Wiley.

Chamorro-Premuzic, T. (2015). Personality and individual differences (3rd ed.). Willey.

Corr, P. J., & Matthews, G. (Eds.). (2020). The Cambridge handbook of personality psychology. Cambridge University Press

Hall, C. S., Lindzey, G., & Camphell, J. B. (2000). Teorias da personalidade. Artes Médicas Sul.

McAdams, D. P. (2001). The person: An integrated introduction to personality psychology. Harcourt.

Pervin, L. A., & John, O. (Eds). (2008). Handbook of personality: Theory and research (3rd ed.). Guilford Press.

Schultz, D. P., & Schultz, S. E. (2015). Teorias da personalidade. Cengage.