Talks with Trent

This episode covers the details of the humanistic perspective for personality with Maslow & Rogers’s studies, the trait theories of Allport & Cattell, and finally discusses different personality inventories like the 16PF, the Big Five Model, Eysenck Questionnaire, the MMPI-2, and MBTI.

Episode reviews the behaviorist perspective in understanding personality with BF Skinner and then dives into the Social Cognitive Theories of Rotter (locus of control) and Bandura (social learning theory), and finally ends with understanding personality & culture (individualist vs collectivist).

This episode defines personality, discusses personality & heritability (IMPORTANT VOCAB WORD!!!), Freud’s studies of personality, and then the neo-Freudians (Jung, Adler, Horney), and finally defense mechanisms.

This episode overviews what motivation is, several theories of motivation, major motivations of humans, and motivational conflicts. I recommend trying to make connections to your own life throughout this episode— may even consider using the motivations of taking this class to help explain the different motivation theories. Enjoy!

This episode is short! Goes through physical, biological, cognitive, & social changes during adolescence and then begins with changes during adulthood and aging.

This episode goes through physical development in terms of prenatal develop & infancy, social development theories of Erikson, Ainsworth, Baumrind, Harlow, and Lorenz, and last cognitive development through schema assimilation, schema accommodation, Piaget’s Stages, and finally Vygotsky’s theories including the Zone of Proximal Development

This episode discusses language structure (phonemes, morphemes, grammar, semantics, and syntax) and then language acquisition (theories and the process of acquiring language)

Focus on defining intelligence (PS it’s hard), intelligence theories, measuring intelligence with standardization, reliability, validity.

Focus on why we forget- encoding failure, storage decay, and retrieval failure. Then move into other reasons for forgetting/misremembering information: negative interference/transfer, amnesia, misinformation effect & Elizabeth Loftis

Focus on Encoding, Storage, and Retrieval of memories