Associate Level Material
Appendix B
History Matrix
Directions: Using the matrix, list at least five events or major concepts from each of the three periods in the history of modern personality psychology.
1930 - 1950 | 1950 - 1970 | 1970 - Present | Example: * Learning from animal responses. 1. “Personality Psychology was born within psychology departments in American universities.” 2. “The first issue of the journal Character and Personality was published in 1932. 3. American psychology searched for universal laws applicable to all organisms.” 4. In the 1930’s personality psychologist proposed comprehensive conceptional systems for understanding the person.” 5. “Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, and Alfred Adler had all developed comprehensive theories of personality derived from clinical observations and rooted in the European psychoanalytical tradition.” | Example: * Specialized psychology departments. 1. “Psychology departments grew and became more specialized, spawning professional specializations in such personally = related areas as clinical counseling, and industrial/organizational psychology.” 2. “Personality psychologist such as, Eysenck specialized in extraversion, Taylor in anxiety, and McClelland the need for achievernent.” 3. Carlson chastised personality psychologist for ignoring the grand theories of the earlier years and staying away from their implicit mandate to study real lives and whole persons in depth.” 4. “The phase began with critique and pervasive doubt concerning the legitimacy and worth of personality studies.” | Example:* The Big Five model. 1. “A renewed interest in personality theory by Mischel and Shoda.” 2. “A renewed commitment to study whole persons in their full biographical complexity, Franz and Stewart.” 3. Contemporary research has become more sensitive to complex interactions of internal personality variable and external of behavior. Kenrick