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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.

Information found in:
Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Inc,. The Person: An Introduction to the Science of Personality Psychology, Chapter 1 p.21-p26

|1930 - 1950 |1950 - 1970 |1970 - Present |
|Example: |Example: |Example: |
|* Learning from animal responses. |* Specialized psychology departments. |* The Big Five model. |
|1. The first journal of ” Character and personality” was |1.Erikson’s 1950 psychosocial theory of personality development |1.Carson (1971) chastised personality psychologist for ignoring |
|published in 1932 |was developed |the grand theories of the early years |
|2. In 1937 Gordon Allport published the first major textbook on |2.1957 Hall and Lindzey organized the field by the personality |2.Fiske(1974) wondered whether perhaps personality psychology |
|personality. |textbooks according to the grand system |had gone as far as it can go |
|3. In 1937 Allport’s theory of psychology of the indivual was |3. extraversion was researched in 1952 Eysenck |3. Shweder (1975) questioned the need for any form of psychology|
|produced. |4. anxiety was researched in 1953 by Taylor |based on individual differences |
|4. In 1938 Murray’s person logical system was created |5.The need for achievement was researched in 1961 by McClelland |4. Mischels (1968,1973) critique, in which he argued against |
|5. In 1947 Cattel offered the trait theories | |explanations of human behavior based on internal personality |
| | |traits and in favor of explanations that focused on the |
| | |situational and cognitive/social learning determinates of |
| | |behavior |
| | |5.Robins,Farley,and Kruger (2007) refined new research |
| | |methodolies for the scientific study of personality |
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