Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Introduction to Personality Psychology Syllabus - Mumbai University 2026
Syllabus for Introduction to Personality Psychology
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Module 1: The Psychodynamic and Behavioral and Social Cognitive View
- a Freud’s Conception of Personality and Carl Jung’s Analytic Theory:
- b Alfred Adler’s Social Psychological Theory and Erik Erikson’s Contemporary Psychoanalytic Theory and Other approaches
- c Albert Bandura and Social Learning Theory and Dollard and Miller’s Stimulus-Response Theory:
- d Rotter’s Social Learning Theory
Module 2: Trait and Humanistic Approaches to Personality
- a Motives and Personality -Abraham Maslow’s Theory:
- b Carl Roger’s Propositions:
- c Gordon Allport’s work and Cattell’s Factor-Analytic 16PF Theory; Eysenck’s PEN Model.
- d Big Five and emerging approaches: FFM, Measurement. Online Measures.
Text Books
- 1 Hall,C.S., Lindzey,G., & Campbell, J.B.(1998). Theories of Personality. New York: J Wiley & Sons.
- 2 Schultz, D.P., & Schultz, S.E. (2017). Theories of Personality. Australia: Cengage Learning.
- 3 Engler, B. (2014). Personality Theories: An Introduction. Belmont: CA: Wadsworth Cengage.
Reference Books
- 1 Ryckman, R.M. (2004). Theories of Personality (8 th ed.). Belmont: CA: Wadsworth Cengage.
- 2 Ciccarelli, S. K. & Meyer, G. E. (2008). Psychology. (Indian sub-continent adaptation). New Delhi: Dorling Kindersley (India) Pvt. Ltd.
- 3 Ciccarelli, S. K., White, J. N. & Misra, G. (2015). Psychology. (5th ed.). New Jersey: Pearson education.