Personality, individual differences and intelligence

✍ Scribed by Day, Liz; Macaskill, Ann; Maltby, John

• Publisher: Pearson Education UK
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 803
• Edition: 4th edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A comprehensive and accessible fourth edition of a market leading text on personality, individual differences and intelligence that offers up-to-date research and a wealth of pedagogical features.

The fourth edition of the marketing leading Personality, Individual Differences and Intelligence continues to offer a comprehensive, accessible and thoroughly up to date introduction to this fascinating field. A thoughtfully developed pedagogical approach guides you from the foundations to the more advanced topics, employing a range of features to encourage reflection, critical thinking and thereby a deeper understanding

✦ Table of Contents

Content: About the authors --
Preface --
Acknowledgements --
Personality --
Personality theory in context --
The basis of the psychoanalytic approach to personality --
Developments of freudian theorising --
Learning theory perspectives on personality --
Cognitive personality theories --
Humanistic personality theories --
The trait approach to personality --
Biological basis of personality i: genetic heritability of personality and biological and physiological models of personality --
Biological basis of personality ii: evolutionary psychology and animal studies of personality --
Intelligence --
An introduction to intelligence --
Theories and measurement of intelligence --
The use of intelligence tests : what questions emerge from the measurement of intelligence --
Heritability and socially defined race differences in intelligence --
Intelligence and the self : emotional intelligence, creativity, and sex differences inintelligence --
The application of personality and intelligence in education and the workplace --
Applications in individual differences --
Optimism --
Irrational beliefs --
Embarrassment, shyness and social anxiety --
Interpersonal relationships --
Social attitudes and culture --
Well-being and personality disorders --
Individual differences in health and illness --
An introduction to psychometric testing --
Glossary --
References and further reading --
Index.

✦ Subjects

Personality;Personality and intelligence;Individual differences