New IGNOU MPC-03 Help Book Personality: Theories and Assessment in English – MA Psychology Latest Edition Guide and Study Material.

Block 1 – Personality: Theories and Assessment
Definition and Concept of Personality and Personality Development
State/Trait Approaches to Personality
Assessment of Personality
Key Issues in Personality

Block 2 – Theories of Personality-I
Psychodynamic Theory (Including Horney and Sullivan)
Social Cognitive Theory of Personality (Bandura)
Learning Theory of Personality (Pavlov and Skinner)
Humanistic and Self Theory (Malsow and Rogers)

Block 3 – Theories of Personality-II
Gordon Allport : A Dispositional Theory of Personality
Raymond Cattell: A Trait Theory of Personality
Hans Eysenck: A Trait-Type Theory of Personality
The Big Five Factors: The Basic Dimensions of Personality

Block 4 – Assessment of Personality
Introduction to Assessment and Testing
Approaches to Personality Assessment (Self-Report, Problems of Response in Projective and Behavioural Assessment)
Behavioural Assessment
Other Measures of Personality