CHALLENGE ACTIVITIES
CHALLENGE QUESTIONS
After you have mastered the basic concepts from this chapter, you might want to try some of these challenge activities, designed to help you better understand and apply what you have learned to your daily life.

IDENTIFICATION
1. Outline the major personal assessment methods and identify the important variables in personality theory development.
2. Identify the major characteristics of each of the personality theories discussed in this chapter.

APPLICATION
3. As explained in the Personality Theory Development section, many people have implicit theories of personality. Develop your own theory of personality, following the guidelines in the chapter. Borrow the best from the theories discussed, but make it your own personal approach. Share your ideas with a friend.
4. Develop a personality assessment method to measure personality in your theory (exercise 3). What type of assessment is best suited for measuring your approach to personality? How would you validate your assessment technique?

EVALUATION
5. The text discusses some of the disadvantages of each of the personality assessment techniques. Which method is most valid and reliable in measuring personality? Why?
6. There are many approaches to personality. Which personality theory presented in this chapter best explains human behavior? Why? How could that theory be improved? Be specific.
7. Why is personality one of the "core" areas of psychology? Show how it is related to the areas of human development, motivation, abnormal psychology, social psychology, and perception. What is the relationship between personality and intelligence?
8. Do you think psychologists will ever agree on one theory of personality? Why? Which approach is it likely to be?

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