Course: AP Psychology Grade Level: 11-12

Unit Title/A Study In Personality Length of Unit: 2 weeks

Unit Summary:

Stage 1- Desired Results

STANDARDS Transfer

Priority: Students will independently use their learning to . . .

Students will be able to compare,
Analyze their own motivations and make predictions about their ideal future
contrast and evaluate
psychoanalytic/psychoanalytic, trait environment
and humanistic theories
Meaning

Supporting: ENDURING UNDERSTANDINGS ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS

Students will understand that… Overarching: How are we different? How
Identify frequently used assessment are we the same?
strategies, and evaluate relative test Topical: How can we measure
quality based on reliability and individuality?
validity of the instruments. Topical: Are there influences on our
personality that we are unaware of?
Acquisition
 Students will know… Students will be skilled at…
Students will be able to compare, contrast and
Personality Psychology, Sigmund Freud, evaluate psychoanalytic/psychoanalytic, trait and
Psychoanalytic Theories, Unconsious, Id, Ego, humanistic theories

Superego, Psychosexual Stages, Oedipus Identify frequently used assessment strategies, and
Complex, Identification, Fixation, Psychoanalysis, evaluate relative test quality based on reliability and
Free Association, Interpretation of Dreams, validity of the instruments.
Defense mechanism, ,Repression, Displacement,
Projection, Denial, Rationalization, Reaciton-
Formation
Neo-Freudians, Psychodynamic Theories, Carl
Jung, Archetypes, Persona, Anima, Animus,
Shadow, Alfred Adler, Birth Order, Karen Horney,
Projective Test, Themaic Apperception Test (TAT),
Rorschach Inkblot Test, The Modern Unconscious
Mind
Humanistic Theories, Carl Rogers Self Theory,
Ideal Self vs Real Self, Unconditional Positive
Regard, Abraham Maslow, Hierarchy of Needs,
Self-Actualization, Behavioral Theories, Operant
Conditioning Theory, Environmenal Determinism,
Social Cognitive Approach/Theory, Reciprocal
determinism, Observational Learning, Self
Efficacy, Social-Cognitive Theory, Locus of
Control, Internal Locus of Control, External Locus
of Control, Trait Theories, Gordon Allport,
Cardinal Traits, Central Traits, Secondary Traits,
Factor Analysis, Raymond Cattell, Source Traits,
Surface Traits, Big Five Personality, Self Report
Methods, Minnesota Multiphasic Personality
Inventory-2, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

Stage 2- Evidence

Evaluation Criteria Assessment Evidence

PERFORMANCE TASK(S):

Analyzing my own personality

 OTHER EVIDENCE:
Unit Test
Quizzes (x3)

Stage 3- Learning Plan

Meaning-making Introduction to unit and EQs

Students will be able to evaluate psychoanalytic Psychoanalysis

Acquisition
theories
How do we measure personality: Case
studies and the psychoanalytic method
Meaning-making Thematic Apperception Test

Students will be able to compare and contrast Trait theory

Acquisition
personality theories
How do we measure personality:
Personality inventories
Compare and contrast the psychoanalytic Myers’s briggs + criticism
Meaning-making
theories of personality with other theories of
personality
Meaning-making The Big Five/Hexaco + criticism

Compare and contrast humanistic theories of Humanism and social cognitive theory
Acquisition
personality with other theories of personality.

Acquisition Unit Test