One of your chief tasks as you study personality psychology is to read carefully and attentively. You may have to give up many of the ideas about human personality that you already hold. Some of your cherished beliefs about people may fade. Thus, we have theories that focus upon intelligence, theories that focus upon anxiety, theories that focus upon aggression, and theories that focus upon human sexual development. Limited theories are sometimes easier to understand than broad-spectrum theories.
Limited theories are also often more interesting.
About The Instructor I was born in DuQuoin, Illinois in 1934 where I obtained my bachelor's degree from Southern Illinois University in 1956. I completed my Master's degree in psychology from Ohio State in 1959 and then completed a clinical psychology internship at Walter Reed Army Hospital. From 1960 to 1963, my graduate studies were interrupted by military service and I worked as a psychologist at the U.S. Army Hospital at Fort Hood, Texas. Following my military service, I returned to Ohio State University and completed my Ph.D. in 1964. Following graduation, I served on the faculty at Pennsylvania State University and in the Department of Psychology at Arizona State University.