Psychology Express: Personality and Individual Differences

✍ Scribed by Dr Terence Butler, Ms Laura Scurlock-Evans, Dr Dominic Upton

Publisher: Pearson
Year: 2013
Tongue: English
Leaves: 325
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

This revision guide provides concise coverage of the central topics within Personality, Individual Difference and Intelligence Psychology, presented within a framework designed to help you focus on assessment and exams. The guide is organised to cater for QAA and BPS recommendations for course content.

Sample questions, assessment advice and exam tips drive the organisation within chapters so you are able to grasp and marshal your thoughts towards revision of the main topics. Features focused on critical thinking, practical applications and key research will offer additional pointers for you in your revision process and exam preparation.

A companion website provides supporting resources for self testing, exam practice, answers to questions in the book, and links to further resources.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Contents
Introduction
Guided tour
Guided tour of the companion website
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Dispositional approaches to personality
Biological theories of personality
Learning theory models of personality
Cognitive and humanistic (phenomenological) models of personality
Psychodynamic personality theories
Stability, consistency and change in personality traits
Describing intelligence: structure and composition
Explaining intelligence: development, determinants and controversies
Psychometrics: tests, testing and measurement
Applications of personality and individual differences
And finally, before the exam . . .
Glossary
References
Index

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