• Political bias affects brain activity, study finds Democrats and Republicans both adept at ignoring facts, brain scans show --MSNBC
  • The Brain: A Road Map to the Mind
    
    
• Question: What do you think the difference(s) in results might be, if any, between the twins in the BBC video [Personality: All About Me (60 min., 2003, DVD 206)] taking the BBC personality test in the a.m. and in the p.m. of the day of the experiment?
  
  
  • What's your personality type? Find out with the "What Am I Like?" personality test. -- BBC
    
    
    • Results of the "What Am I Like?" BBC personality test for Tim Roufs
      
      
      • Possible results include:
        • Big Thinker (Spontaneous + Ideas + Heads + Extrovert)
        • Counsellor (Planner + Ideas + Hearts + Introvert)
        • Go-getter (Spontaneous + Facts + Heads + Extrovert)
        • Idealist (Spontaneous + Ideas + Hearts + Introvert)
        • Innovator (Spontaneous + Ideas + Hearts + Extrovert)
        • Leader (Planner + Ideas + Heads + Extrovert)
        • Mastermind (Planner + Ideas + Heads + Introvert)
        • Mentor (Planner + Ideas + Hearts + Extrovert)
        • Nurturer (Planner + Facts + Hearts + Introvert)
        • Peacemaker (Spontaneous + Facts + Hearts + Introvert)
        • Performer (Spontaneous + Facts + Hearts + Extrovert)
        • Provider (Planner + Facts + Hearts + Extrovert)
        • Realist (Planner + Facts + Heads + Introvert)
        • Resolver (Spontaneous + Facts + Heads + Introvert)
        • Strategist (Spontaneous + Ideas + Heads + Introvert)
        • Supervisor (Planner + Facts + Heads + Extrovert)

Great Pyrenean Mountain Dog

• Other Personality Tests [for fun]
  
  
• Recommendations on studying for this course
  • exam information
    
    
• Review of Writing Projects for the Term
  (Course Requirements Summary)

  try the Assignment Calculator <http://www.d.umn.edu/lib/assign/index.phtml> from the Research Tools and Resources section <http://www.d.umn.edu/lib/research.htm> of the UMD Library <http://www.d.umn.edu/lib/index.htm>

   

Focus: Person



Topic: A Culture and Personality Personality



Case Study

4-6 well-written pages

case study: 300 points (15% of final grade)

Due to WebDrop <https://webdrop.d.umn.edu>

call your file something like your emailname assignment name
e.g., rouf0013 CP case study

unexcused late Case Study paper = - 50 points (2.5% of final grade)



Focus: Problem



Topic: Personally selected topic relevant to culture and personality studies



Term Paper (Picking a Topic)

10-12 well-written pages

paper: 600 points (30% of final grade)

unexcused late Case Study paper = - 50 points (2.5% of final grade)

Picking a Topic

Other WebSites Related to Culture and Personality





• Question: "What do I already know about Culture and Personality?"
  (results)
  
  
• Frequently asked questions (FAQs)
  
  
• Introduction to Anthropology and Culture and Personality
  
  
  • Main Characteristics of Anthropology (slides)
    
    
  1. culture: as a primary concept
     • learned
     • shared
     • transmitted from generation to generation
     • symbolic
     • integrated
       
       
  2. comparative methods: as major approaches to the study of human behavior development and structure
     
     
  3. holism: or the study of "humankind" as a whole, as a primary goal of anthropology
     
     
     • The approach used in this class emphasizes the "holistic" anthropological view which combines observations of "culture" and behavior with considerations of the physical and developmental aspects of humans.
       
       
• Introduction to the other Main Terms, Concepts, Ideas and People in Culture and Personality Studies: A CP Glossary in Historical Context (time permitting)
  
  
• Review of viewing guide for video: "Psychological Anthropology"
  
  
  • nlt 02:30 Video: "Psychological Anthropology," Faces of Culture Series, Part 5
    [fka "Culture and Personality"]
    (30 min., 1994, VC 2466, pt. 5)
    
    

• Reading Assignment
  • Ch. 2, "Cross-Cultural Research: Scope and Methods," pp. 25-52