{"id":2455,"date":"2016-11-07T20:21:46","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T20:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/waymaker-psychology\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=2455"},"modified":"2024-05-17T15:06:13","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T15:06:13","slug":"introduction-explaining-personality","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/waymaker-psychology\/chapter\/introduction-explaining-personality\/","title":{"raw":"Introduction to Explaining Personality","rendered":"Introduction to Explaining Personality"},"content":{"raw":"<h2>What you'll learn to do: describe and differentiate between personality theories<\/h2>\r\nBeyond Freud and the Neo-Freudians, there are many other approaches that work to explain personality. In this section, you'll learn about the behavioral, humanistic, biological, trait, and cultural perspectives.\r\n<div class=\"textbox examples\">\r\n<h3>Watch It<\/h3>\r\nWatch this video for an overview about the main philosophical approaches to studying personality:\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"\/\/plugin.3playmedia.com\/show?mf=1793502&amp;p3sdk_version=1.10.1&amp;p=20361&amp;pt=573&amp;video_id=rvE0uHX3guk&amp;video_target=tpm-plugin-cvb6rkiv-rvE0uHX3guk\" width=\"800px\" height=\"500px\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0px\" marginheight=\"0px\"><\/iframe>\r\n\r\nYou can <a href=\"https:\/\/oerfiles.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/Psychology\/Transcriptions\/WhatsPersonalityAllAbout.txt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">view the transcript for \"What's Personality All About\" here (opens in new window)<\/a>.\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"textbox learning-objectives\">\r\n<h3>Learning Objectives<\/h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Describe the learning perspective on personality, including the concepts of reciprocal determinism, self-efficacy, locus of control, and the person-situation debate<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Explain\u00a0the contributions of humanists Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers to personality development<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Explain biological approaches to understanding personality, including the findings of the Minnesota Study of Twins Reared Apart, heritability, and temperament<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Discuss the early trait theories of Cattell and Eysenck<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Describe\u00a0the Big Five factors and categorize\u00a0someone who is high and low on each of the five factors<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Discuss personality differences of people from collectivist and individualist cultures and the varying approaches to studying personality (the cultural-comparative approach,\u00a0the indigenous approach,\u00a0and the combined approach)<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/div>","rendered":"<h2>What you&#8217;ll learn to do: describe and differentiate between personality theories<\/h2>\n<p>Beyond Freud and the Neo-Freudians, there are many other approaches that work to explain personality. 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