By the end of this section, you will be able to:Define personalityDescribe early theories about personality development

The first chapter provides an overview of the textbook and reviews the history of psychology and its methodology. Psychology is described as a science studying how hereditary (nature) and experiential (nurture) variables interact to influence the thoughts, feelings, and behavior of individuals. The remainder of the text will be organized in sections entitled “Mostly Nature” (Biological Psychology; Sensation & Perception; Motivation & Emotion), “Mostly Nurture” (Direct Learning; Indirect Learning (i.e., observational learning and language); Cognition), and “Nature/Nurture” (Human Development; Personality; Social Psychology; Maladaptive Behavior; Professional Psychology and Human Potential).

Unit 3 – Socialization -  Chapter 5 pages 93-107Definition of Socialization.Definition of Personality.The Development of the “Self” and socialization influences according to sociological views: George Herbert Mead, Erving Goffman, Charles Cooley and psychological views: Jean Piaget and Sigmund Freud.Page 86 “Presentation of Self”Resocialization and Anticipatory Socialization.Agents of Socialization.​​​​

Millions of people are on-line today and the number is rapidly growing - yet this virtual crowd is often invisible. In this course we will examine ways of visualizing people, their activities and their interactions. Students will study the cognitive and cultural basis for social visualization through readings drawn from sociology, psychology and interface design and they will explore new ways of depicting virtual crowds and mapping electronic spaces through a series of design exercises.

Students will better their fingerspelling skills by making a short story with their lab mates. In the main activity, students will play a game, while learning about physical descriptions and additional information about a person. 

This lesson plan is focused on learning and understanding the meaning of personality adjectives, which are widely used when describing people’s characters. Being aware of what kind of a character a person has can help communicating people to be tolerant, patient and empathetic to each other. Keeping in mind that all people are different leads to critical thinking without harsh judgement that is included into a civil discourse.

In this lab, students will describe their personality and their family members' personality. They will also learn how to compare and contrast their personality to other people's personality.

In this activity, students will take a fun quiz to find out what kind of traveller they are.

In this lab, students will describe their personality and their family members' personality. They will also learn how to compare and contrast their personality to other people's personality.