| Effective Term: | 2025/05 |
| Institute / School : | Institute of Health and Wellbeing |
| Unit Title: | Personality |
| Unit ID: | PSYCB2103 |
| Credit Points: | 15.00 |
| Prerequisite(s): | (At least 30 credit points from PSYCB1001 or PSYCB1002 or PSYCB1101 or PSYCB1102 or PSYCB2101) |
| Co-requisite(s): | Nil |
| Exclusion(s): | Nil |
| ASCED: | 090701 |
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| Brief description of the Unit |
Students will study personality theories from psychoanalytic, behaviourist, humanistic, cognitive, trait and field perspectives. Students will critically evaluate various approaches to the study of personality and gain an understanding of the nature and place of theory and technique in comprehending integrated human behaviour. |
| Grade Scheme: | Graded (HD, D, C, P, MF, F, XF) |
| Work Experience Indicator: |
| No work experience |
| Placement Component: No |
| Supplementary Assessment:Yes |
| Where supplementary assessment is available a student must have failed overall in the Unit but gained a final mark of 45 per cent or above, has completed all major assessment tasks (including all sub-components where a task has multiple parts) as specified in the Unit Description and is not eligible for any other form of supplementary assessment |
| Course Level: |
| Level of Unit in Course | AQF Level(s) of Course | | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | | Introductory | | | | | | | | Intermediate | | |  | | | | | Advanced | | | | | | |
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| Learning Outcomes: |
| Knowledge: |
| K1. | Identify, describe and assess the key concepts, theories and topics within personality psychology. |
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| K2. | Evaluate the main assessment and research methods used in personality psychology. |
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| K3. | Describe and interpret the history and development of the field of personality psychology. |
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| Skills: |
| S1. | Further develop research, writing and presentation skills as relevant to the psychology discipline. |
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| S2. | Critically review, evaluate, consolidate and synthesise knowledge in the field of personality psychology. |
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| S3. | Identify and reflect on the evidence of personality psychology principles in everyday situations |
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| Application of knowledge and skills: |
| A1. | Critically evaluate various approaches to the study of personality psychology with respect to everyday life. |
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| A2. | Identify and explain personality psychology principles evident in everyday situations. |
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| A3. | Prepare a research report by following the scientific method, psychological research methods and APA style conventions |
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| Unit Content: |
•Introduction to the history and development of the study of personality psychology
•Clinical and research methods for assessing and measuring personality
•The key theoretical approaches to personality: trait and type psychoanalytic and neoanalytic phenomenological, humanist and positive psychology biological and evolutionary learning and social learning cognition and personality processes
•Influences of gender and culture on personality
•Personality disorders
•Understanding the self |
| Graduate Attributes: |
| Federation University recognises that students require key transferable employability skills to prepare them for their future workplace and society. FEDTASKS (Transferable Attributes Skills and Knowledge) provide a targeted focus on five key transferable Attributes, Skills, and Knowledge that are be embedded within curriculum, developed gradually towards successful measures and interlinked with cross-discipline and Co-operative Learning opportunities. One or more FEDTASK, transferable Attributes, Skills or Knowledge must be evident in the specified learning outcomes and assessment for each FedUni Unit, and all must be directly assessed in each Course.
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| FED TASK and descriptor | Development and acquisition of FEDTASKS in the Unit | | Level | FEDTASK 1
Interpersonal | Students will demonstrate the ability to effectively communicate, inter-act and work with others both individually and in groups. Students will be required to display skills in-person and/or online in: • Using effective verbal and non-verbal communication • Listening for meaning and influencing via active listening • Showing empathy for others • Negotiating and demonstrating conflict resolution skills • Working respectfully in cross-cultural and diverse teams. | Level 1 - Students require directions and boundaries from mentor | FEDTASK 2
Leadership | Students will demonstrate the ability to apply professional skills and behaviours in leading others. Students will be required to display skills in: • Creating a collegial environment • Showing self -awareness and the ability to self-reflect • Inspiring and convincing others • Making informed decisions • Displaying initiative | N/A - Not Applicable | FEDTASK 3
Critical Thinking and Creativity | Students will demonstrate an ability to work in complexity and ambiguity using the imagination to create new ideas. Students will be required to display skills in: • Reflecting critically • Evaluating ideas, concepts and information • Considering alternative perspectives to refine ideas • Challenging conventional thinking to clarify concepts • Forming creative solutions in problem solving. | Level 2 - Student demonstrates some independence within provided guidelines | FEDTASK 4
Digital Literacy | Students will demonstrate the ability to work fluently across a range of tools, platforms and applications to achieve a range of tasks. Students will be required to display skills in: • Finding, evaluating, managing, curating, organising and sharing digital information • Collating, managing, accessing and using digital data securely • Receiving and responding to messages in a range of digital media • Contributing actively to digital teams and working groups • Participating in and benefiting from digital learning opportunities. | Level 1 - Students require directions and boundaries from mentor | FEDTASK 5
Sustainable and Ethical Mindset | Students will demonstrate the ability to consider and assess the consequences and impact of ideas and actions in enacting ethical and sustainable decisions. Students will be required to display skills in: • Making informed judgments that consider the impact of devising solutions in global economic environmental and societal contexts • Committing to social responsibility as a professional and a citizen • Evaluating ethical, socially responsible and/or sustainable challenges and generating and articulating responses • Embracing lifelong, life-wide and life-deep learning to be open to diverse others • Implementing required actions to foster sustainability in their professional and personal life. | Level 2 - Student demonstrates some independence within provided guidelines |
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| | Learning Outcomes Assessed | Assessment Tasks | Assessment Type | Weighting | | 1. | K1, K2, S1, S2, A1, A3 | Written assignment: Demonstrate an understanding of theory and research as they apply to particular aspects of personality research | Research review / report | 10-40% | | 2. | K1, K2, S1, S2, S3, A1, A2 | Written assignment based on practical activities: Display an understanding of the relationship between research and theory in personality and its practical implications | Applied task / report | 10-40% | | 3. | K1, K2, K3, S2, A1, A2 | Examination: Mastery of unit content: concepts, theories and issues in personality | Exam | 20-50% |
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