Cursos / 1º Ciclo / Institute of Psychology and Educational Sciences :: Psychology

PSICOLOGIA DA PERSONALIDADE - 2016/2017

2º curricular year
Semestralidade: 2nd semester
ECTS: 3

Teachers

Leading Teacher: Prof. Doutor Paulo Moreira
Assistant Professor: Prof. Doutor Paulo Moreira

Class type and School hours

Teórico-prática : 2 Horas

Teaching Language

Portuguese

Main Aims/Objectives

To understand the construct of personality and related constructs;
To understand the historical, paradigmatic, and disciplinary evolution of the study of personality;
To understand the main approaches and methods of study of personality;

Specific Aims/Objectives

To know the main determinants of personality;
To understand the main models of personality;
To understanding the developmental features of personality;
To understand the influence of personality on the several domains of biopsychosocial functioning;

Skills to be acquired

To know the main determinants of personality;
To understand the main models of personality;
To understanding the developmental features of personality;
To understand the influence of personality on the several domains of biopsychosocial functioning;

Teaching Procedures

The teaching methodology will combine expositive, demonstrative and participative methodologies. The curricular contents will be explored using oral exposition, data-show, role-play, case analysis, and monitoring of the process of developing the case analysis by each student.

Programme

1.Introduction to the study of personality: concepts and constructs. Historical evolution of the study of personality; Personality structure, processes and functions;
2.Approaches to the study of personality: from the broad models of psychological development to the specific models of personality; from the idiographic to the nomotetic approaches;
3.Determinants of personality: contributions from behavioral genetics, molecular biology, neuroanatomical circuitries, psychological processes; context influences (from family to culture)
4.Models of personality: lexical, biological, socio-cognitive, and integrative models;
5.Personality development: stability and change, differentiation and maturity; linearity and non-linearity;
6.Personality and psychosocial functioning (personality and psychopathology; wellbeing; health/disease; longevity; death; education; occupational and wealth outcomes; performance;

Evaluation Type

Evaluation will consist of one individual work, and of 2 writing tests during the semester. Each student will be invited to develop a case analysis, by conceptualizing the individual’s (the study case) functioning accordingly to 3 different personality models.

Teaching Resources

Multimedia projector;
Presentations provided in each class;
Moodle;
Scientific databases;
References

Sustainability Objectives

Keywords

Personality;
Temperament models;
Lexical Model;
Psychobiological models;

Main Bibliography

Complementary Bibliography