PSY 251 - Personality

Course Units: 1

(Fall, Winter; Benack, Morton) This course will emphasize personality theory and research in an effort to understand individual persons. Students will come to learn more about their own and others’ personality through a variety of approaches, such as traits and individual differences, psychoanalysis, personality development, self psychology, and the humanistic perspective. Drawing connections to other areas of psychological science, the course will explore how personality relates to motivation, emotion, cognition, and behavior. Prerequisite(s): PSY 100