This assignment focuses on the human personality, different theories that attempt to explain human personality, and personality disorders. The assignment requires that you select one video (from the choices provided in the course). You will use that video to identify basic perspectives and theories used in psychology. You must then complete the template located in your Course Resources > Course Documents area.

Below are Library resources related to your selected videos:

• The Bystander Effect

• The Milgram Experiment

• Learned Helplessness

• The Stanford Prison Experiment

• Begin searching directly from the Find page of this research guide.
• Enter your search terms. For example:
  • states of consciousness
  • "personality theories" "psychodynamic theory"
  • behaviorist personality theory
  • humanistic theory of personality
  • trait personality theory

You can try searching with or without quotation marks to see if your results differ. Quotation marks simply simply tell the database to search words together as phrases).

Many of these terms can also be searched in the DSM-Library: