Instructor's Manual for
Personality Theories Workbook
6th edition
Donna Ashcraft
Clarion University of Pennsylvania
Preface
I developed the Personality Theories Workbook to allow students an opportunity to better
learn personality theories and to better understand them by practicing applying the concepts they
learned in class or from their texts to behaviors and experiences that could be found in real life.
The workbook can be used in a number of ways to accomplish this. For example, some of the
cases can be used to illustrate points during lecture: The instructors can either work through the
questions with their students or have students work in groups and then report back to the class
with their conclusions. Other instructors might want students to use the workbook for homework
assignments and have them hand in their answers for grading. Still others might use it as a study
guide or exam, either in-class or take-home. Instructors might also want to use the cases as a
basis for students writing application papers. Finally, instructors who want to utilize a
constructivist or guided discovery learning approach might want to use the cases as a beginning
point for students to develop their own knowledge base.
There are two case studies for each of the major theories in the first section of the
workbook. Instructors can decide which of the cases best fits their needs or they may decide to
use both by using one as an in-class example and the other as an assignment. These first section
cases are useful in helping students learn and apply theoretical concepts. I have also included
questions after each case that allow for theory comparison as students progress through their
personality courses. These questions directly ask students to compare and contrast theoretical
concepts. The second section also contains a number of cases and can be used for theory
comparison. The comparison questions in the first section of the workbook are more specific and
help students to learn individual theoretical concepts by comparing them to similar concepts
from other theories and contrasting them with similar concepts so as to note their differences.
The cases in the second section encourage more general theory comparison and demonstrate that
the same behavior can be explained in a number of different ways by changing focus. These last
cases are useful at the end of the semester to tie the all course material together. This instructor's
manual includes answers to each of these questions and provides ideas for additional class
discussion.
Table of Contents
Section 1. Learning and Applying the Theories
Sigmund Freud
Case Study 1
Application Questions
Theory Comparison Questions
Case Study 2
Application Questions
Theory Comparison Questions
Suggestions for additional discussion
Carl Jung
Case Study 3
Application Questions
Theory Comparison Questions
Case Study 4
Application Questions
Theory Comparison Questions
Suggestions for additional discussion
Erik Erikson
Case Study 5
Application Questions
Theory Comparison Questions
Case Study 6
Application Questions
Theory Comparison Questions
Suggestions for additional discussion
Alfred Adler
Case Study 7
Application Questions
Theory Comparison Questions
Case Study 8
Application Questions
Theory Comparison Questions
Suggestions for additional discussion
Karen Horney
Case Study 9
Application Questions
Theory Comparison Questions
Case Study 10
Application Questions
Theory Comparison Questions
Suggestions for additional discussion
Erich Fromm
Case Study 11
Application Questions
Theory Comparison Questions
Case Study 12
Application Questions
Theory Comparison Questions
Suggestions for additional discussion
Harry Stack Sullivan
Case Study 13
Application Questions
Theory Comparison Questions
Case Study 14
Application Questions
Theory Comparison Questions
Suggestions for additional discussion
John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth
Case Study 15
Application Questions
Theory Comparison Questions
Case Study 16
Application Questions
Theory Comparison Questions
Suggestions for additional discussion
Abraham Maslow
Case Study 17
Application Questions
Theory Comparison Questions
Case Study 18
Application Questions
Theory Comparison Questions
Suggestions for additional discussion
Carl Rogers
Case Study 19
Application Questions
Theory Comparison Questions
Case Study 20
Application Questions
Theory Comparison Questions
Suggestions for additional discussion
Rollo May
Case Study 21
Application Questions
Theory Comparison Questions
Case Study 22
Application Questions
Theory Comparison Questions
Suggestions for additional discussion
George Kelly
Case Study 23
Application Questions
Theory Comparison Questions
Case Study 24
Application Questions
Theory Comparison Questions
Suggestions for additional discussion
Burrhus Frederic Skinner
Case Study 25
Application Questions
Theory Comparison Questions
Case Study 26
Application Questions
Theory Comparison Questions
Suggestions for additional discussion
Albert Bandura
Case Study 27
Application Questions
Theory Comparison Questions
Case Study 28
Application Questions
Theory Comparison Questions
Suggestions for additional discussion
Julian Rotter
Case Study 29
Application Questions
Theory Comparison Questions
Case Study 30
Application Questions
Theory Comparison Questions
Suggestions for additional discussion
Gordon Allport
Case Study 31
Application Questions
Theory Comparison Questions
Case Study 32
Application Questions
Theory Comparison Questions
Suggestions for additional discussion
Raymond Cattell
Case Study 33
Application Questions
Theory Comparison Questions
Case Study 34
Application Questions
Theory Comparison Questions
Suggestions for additional discussion
Robert McCrea and Paul Costa
Case Study 35
Application Questions
Theory Comparison Questions
Case Study 36
Application Questions
Theory Comparison Questions
Suggestions for additional discussion
Evolutionary Psychology
Case Study 37
Application Questions
Theory Comparison Questions
Case Study 38
Application Questions
Theory Comparison Questions
Section 2. Limited Domain theories
Martin Seligman
Case Study 39
Application Questions
Theory Comparison Questions
Case Study 40
Application Questions
Theory Comparison Questions
Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenman
Case Study 41
Application Questions
Theory Comparison Questions
Case Study 42
Application Questions
Theory Comparison Questions
Social Anxiety
Case Study 43
Application Questions
Theory Comparison Questions
Case Study 44
Application Questions
Theory Comparison Questions
Section 3. Additional Theory Comparison: Multiple Explanations for the Same Behavior
Case Study 45
Application Questions
Case Study 46
Application Questions
Case Study 47
Application Questions
Case Study 48
Application Questions
Case Study 49
Application Question
