Approaches of Personality | BA SEM 6 Psychology Lucknow University Syllabus

Unit I: Overview of Personality 

• Criteria for Evaluating Personality Theories 

• Basic assumptions Concerning Human Nature 

• Comparison of Nomothetic vs. Idiographic Approach, Trait vs. Type Theories

 
Unit II: Trait and Type theories 

• General assumptions of Trait and Type Theories 

• Allport and Cattell’s theory of Personality 

• Eysenck and Jung’s theory of Personality


Unit III: Psychodynamic Theories 

• General assumptions of Psychodynamic Theories 

• Sigmund Freud’s Psychoanalytic Theory 

• Extension of Psychoanalytic theory: Adler and Object Relations 

Unit IV: Humanistic and Existential Theories 

• General assumptions of Humanistic and Existential Theories 

• Humanistic Theories: Maslow and Rogers 

• Existential Theories: Frankl and Rollo May