1.) Identify and describe the basic approaches to personality considered in this course.
2.) Explain why, in your own words, it is so difficult to study links between personality and the brain.
3.)Describe Freud’s stages of psychological development. Identify the physical focus and psychological theme
of each stage.
4.)Greg is entering the senior year of high school and has successfully moved through Erickson’s psychosocial
stages of development to this point. What will need to happen for him to continue through Erikson’s stages
successfully?
5.) What makes a theorist Neo-Freudian? In what ways do these theorists generally depart from Freud? Which
theorists have had the most influence on contemporary personality research?
6.) Explain in your own words the three concepts of Freud’s Structural Model of Personality (id, ego, superego).
7.) Explain in your own words the three concepts of Freud’s Topographical Model of Personality (Conscious,
Preconscious, Unconscious).