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Personal Development Personal Transformation Psychology

Understanding Yourself

Using major theories of personality to create a happy and satisfying life
Rating: 3.4 out of 53.4 (14 ratings)
1,387 students
Created by Dr. Don J. Sharpsteen
Last updated 1/2013
English
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What you'll 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

Requirements

  • None

Description

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.

Who this course is for:

  • 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

Course content

5 sections • 43 lectures • 5h 44m total length

  • Preview05:27
  • Preview12:40
  • Correlational Research
    12:47
  • Statistical Significance
    20:07
  • Lump Together, Or Tease Apart
    11:01
  • The Big Five (or Whatever)
    04:20
  • Factor Analysis (part 1)
    12:57
  • Factor Analysis (part 2)
    05:30
  • Factor Analysis Illustrated
    33:47

  • Walter Mischel Complains
    06:45
  • Aggregate
    06:56
  • Sometimes You Feel Like a Nut But, Sometimes, Not So Much
    08:56
  • Back Atcha, Walter
    02:49

  • An Overview of Sigmund Freud's "Psychoanalysis"
    08:55
  • I Got Needs, and I Got Choices
    10:40
  • Fear Is The Big Bugaboo
    06:24
  • Irrational Behaviors Resolve Conflicts
    03:48
  • Fantasy is Nice (But it Isn't a Cheeseburger)
    08:25
  • Habits Fill the Emptiness Inside (part 1)
    10:55
  • Habits Fill the Emptiness Inside (part 2)
    06:44
  • Your Stuff'll Come Up Anyway
    02:52
  • Sharpsteen's Motto
    03:04

  • Every Good Drama Involves Conflict
    03:03
  • Motives And Instincts (as Jung Sees Them)
    04:47
  • Making Decisions
    06:47
  • Character (part 1)
    06:37
  • Character (part 2)
    05:01
  • Balance, Grasshopper
    04:17
  • Why Is There Imbalance?
    04:48
  • Getting Balanced
    05:58
  • Sigmund And The Other Carl
    05:39
  • Three Selves
    03:53
  • Congruence
    05:10
  • An Overview of Kelly's Personal Construct Theory
    02:57
  • Personal Construct Theory
    12:51

  • A Trait Is As Good As A Bunion To A Gene
    05:00
  • The $64,000 Question
    03:56
  • It Ain't Much. Or is it?
    05:59
  • How Evolution Works
    04:30
  • The Contexts Of Mating
    12:34
  • Short, Long, Man, Woman
    14:16
  • Attachment Theory
    09:30
  • Attachment Styles
    11:18

Instructor

Dr. Don J. Sharpsteen
Psychology professor (retired), Missouri S&T
Dr. Don J. Sharpsteen
  • 3.5 Instructor Rating
  • 161 Reviews
  • 11,301 Students
  • 5 Courses

Dr. Sharpsteen has been a professor of psychology for nearly 30 years, specializing in topics related to social psychology, personality, human development, research design, and statistics.  He's the author of REA's CLEP Introductory Psychology, a best-selling test preparation guide for introductory/general psychology courses (with exceptionally strong reviews from students), and several video textbooks offered on Udemy.

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