This is designed to give you a better understanding of your present orientation and understanding

This is designed to give you a better understanding of your present orientation and understanding concerning the following topics in personality theory. Think before answering, and try to give a clear and complete opinion on each item. There are no “right” or “wrong” answers, so answer each according to your personal beliefs.

1. Define personality:

2. Define self:

3. Give the characteristics of a healthy personality:

4. When you first meet a person and have no prior knowledge concerning the person, on what basis do you characterize, stereotype, or decide how to act toward and interact with the person?

5. What gives a person’s life meaning?

6. What makes human beings “human”? (How are all alike at the core?)

7. What motivates all human beings? Is motivation learned or innate? Does it change during one’s lifetime?

8. Do humans have an unconscious? If yes, to what extent is normal, adult behavior controlled or guided by the unconscious?

9. Why are human beings different? (Is the difference a product of the environment, or are we born different?)

10. How consistent is a normal, adult human being from one situation to the next? What causes inconsistencies, if there are any?