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 466-392 CDS3C Personality Development EXT

Credit Points

16.7

HECS Band

1

Coordinator

Jennifer Standish

Prerequisites

466-277 CDS2A Aspects of Development EXT or approved equivalent.

Semester

2 (view timetable)

Contact

This subject is offered in the external mode

Subject Description

A range of personality theories which have relevance to the development of children will be studied. The nature of personality and of theories will be considered. Approaches to the study of personality to be evaluated will include the psychodynamic (Freud, Jung), socio-cultural (Adler, Erikson), trait (Cattell, Eysenck), learning (Bandura) and existential-humanistic (Maslow, Rogers).

Assessment

Written work to the equivalent of 5000 words will be graded. A number of small exercises are to be submitted as hurdle requirements.

Prescribed Texts
  • Monte C F, Beneath the Mask: an Introduction to Theories of Personality (6th ed). Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace, 1999.
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