Understanding Yourself

Understanding Yourself, available at $19.99, has an average rating of 3.3, with 43 lectures, based on 14 reviews, and has 1392 subscribers.

You will learn about Perspectives on what it takes to live a satisfying, well-balanced, and happy life Key elements of major personality theories that relate to your well-being This course is ideal for individuals who are Those who are looking for ways to create a happier, more satisfying life for themselves or Anyone interested in knowing more about what drives human behavior or Anyone taking (or preparing to take) courses in Introductory Psychology, Personality, Motivation, and related topics It is particularly useful for Those who are looking for ways to create a happier, more satisfying life for themselves or Anyone interested in knowing more about what drives human behavior or Anyone taking (or preparing to take) courses in Introductory Psychology, Personality, Motivation, and related topics.

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Title: Understanding Yourself

Price: $19.99

Average Rating: 3.3

Number of Lectures: 43

Number of Published Lectures: 43

Number of Curriculum Items: 43

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 43

Original Price: $19.99

Quality Status: approved

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What You Will Learn

Perspectives on what it takes to live a satisfying, well-balanced, and happy life
Key elements of major personality theories that relate to your well-being

Who Should Attend

Those who are looking for ways to create a happier, more satisfying life for themselves
Anyone interested in knowing more about what drives human behavior
Anyone taking (or preparing to take) courses in Introductory Psychology, Personality, Motivation, and related topics

Target Audiences

Those who are looking for ways to create a happier, more satisfying life for themselves
Anyone interested in knowing more about what drives human behavior
Anyone taking (or preparing to take) courses in Introductory Psychology, Personality, Motivation, and related topics

Simply put, your personality is the choices you make. All major theories of personality identify what it takes to make choices that will create a happy and satisfying life, but each does it from a different perspective. These videos have been culled from ones used in a Personality course that I taught for nearly 30 years, and describe those theoretical approaches to understanding the choices you make. Find the one that grabs you, and put it to use improving your life, your work, and your relationships.

For those who’d like to take a more rigorous look at the science of personality, the first few sections of the course explain how research in personality is done and some of the issues that come up when doing that research.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Personality in Perspective — What it is and How it's Done

Lecture 1: The Basic Premise

Lecture 2: Experimental Research

Lecture 3: Correlational Research

Lecture 4: Statistical Significance

Lecture 5: Lump Together, Or Tease Apart

Lecture 6: The Big Five (or Whatever)

Lecture 7: Factor Analysis (part 1)

Lecture 8: Factor Analysis (part 2)

Lecture 9: Factor Analysis Illustrated

Chapter 2: Got 'Personality'? Not Everybody Thinks So

Lecture 1: Walter Mischel Complains

Lecture 2: Aggregate

Lecture 3: Sometimes You Feel Like a Nut But, Sometimes, Not So Much

Lecture 4: Back Atcha, Walter

Chapter 3: So Many Choices — Internal Psychological Dynamics (part 1)

Lecture 1: An Overview of Sigmund Freud's "Psychoanalysis"

Lecture 2: I Got Needs, and I Got Choices

Lecture 3: Fear Is The Big Bugaboo

Lecture 4: Irrational Behaviors Resolve Conflicts

Lecture 5: Fantasy is Nice (But it Isn't a Cheeseburger)

Lecture 6: Habits Fill the Emptiness Inside (part 1)

Lecture 7: Habits Fill the Emptiness Inside (part 2)

Lecture 8: Your Stuff'll Come Up Anyway

Lecture 9: Sharpsteen's Motto

Chapter 4: What? More Choices?! — Internal Psychological Dynamics (part 2)

Lecture 1: Every Good Drama Involves Conflict

Lecture 2: Motives And Instincts (as Jung Sees Them)

Lecture 3: Making Decisions

Lecture 4: Character (part 1)

Lecture 5: Character (part 2)

Lecture 6: Balance, Grasshopper

Lecture 7: Why Is There Imbalance?

Lecture 8: Getting Balanced

Lecture 9: Sigmund And The Other Carl

Lecture 10: Three Selves

Lecture 11: Congruence

Lecture 12: An Overview of Kelly's Personal Construct Theory

Lecture 13: Personal Construct Theory

Chapter 5: Recent Big Themes in Personality

Lecture 1: A Trait Is As Good As A Bunion To A Gene

Lecture 2: The $64,000 Question

Lecture 3: It Ain't Much. Or is it?

Lecture 4: How Evolution Works

Lecture 5: The Contexts Of Mating

Lecture 6: Short, Long, Man, Woman

Lecture 7: Attachment Theory

Lecture 8: Attachment Styles

Instructors

Dr. Don J. Sharpsteen
Psychology professor (retired), Missouri S&T

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5 stars: 3 votes

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