Appendix B

PSY/230 Version 4

Associate Level Material

Appendix B
History Matrix
Directions: Using the matrix, list at least five events or major concepts from each of the three periods in the history
of modern personality psychology.

1930 - 1950
1. Allport published the first textbook
on personality called Personality: A
Psychological Interpretation (1937)
2. Allport promoted an idiographic
approach to personality
3. Murrays personological system
(1938)
4. Eriksons psychosocial theory of
personality development (1950)
5. Freud, Jung, Adler had all formed
theories of personality

1950 - 1970

1970 - Present

1. Federal funding that supported

personality research was increased
2. Many studies were conducted on
the need for success and observable
behavior
3. Psychologists developed critiques of
personality psychology which had
detrimental effects
4. Carlson pointed the finger at
personality psychologists for not
paying attention to previous theories or
conducting detailed studies
5. Shweder inquired about how
individual differences affects the need
for psychology

1. Debates were formed regarding the

authenticity and value of personality
studies
2. Psychologists had established new
research methodologies
Pertaining to studying people
3. The identity of what and who a
person is and how people can be
understood was focused
4. The integrative personality theory
was revisited
5. Intricate studies on individual people
were revisited