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  • Perspectives on Personality
  • Written by author Charles S. Carver
  • Published by Pearson, 7/20/2011
  • Informative, yet engaging – viewpoints of personality psychologists today Written in an informal, conversational style, Carver and Scheier engage students by helping them understand how various perspectives of the field of personality can
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IN THIS SECTION:

1.) BRIEF

2.) COMPREHENSIVE


BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Chapter 1: What Is Personality Psychology?

Chapter 2: Methods in the Study of Personality

Chapter 3: Issues in Personality Assessment

Chapter 4: The Trait Perspective

Chapter 5: The Motive Perspective

Chapter 6: Genetics, Evolution, and Personality

Chapter 7: Biological Processes and Personality

Chapter 8: The Psychoanalytic Perspective

Chapter 9: Psychosocial Theories

Chapter 10: The Learning Perspective

Chapter 11: Self-Actualization and Self-Determination

Chapter 12: The Cognitive Perspective

Chapter 13: The Self-Regulation Perspective

Chapter 14: Personality in Perspective: Overlap and Integration


COMPREHENSIVE TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Chapter 1: What Is Personality Psychology?

Defining Personality

Theory in Personality Psychology

Perspectives on Personality

Organization within Chapters

Chapter 2: Methods in the Study of Personality

Gathering Information

Establishing Relationships among Variables

Chapter 3: Issues in Personality Assessment

Sources of Information

Reliability of Measurement

Validity of Measurement

Two Rationales behind the Development of Assessment Devices

Better Assessment: A Never-Ending Search

Chapter 4: The Trait Perspective

Types and Traits

What Traits Matter?

The Five-Factor Model: The Basic Dimensions of Personality?

Reflections of the Five Factors in Behavior

Relations to Earlier Trait Models

Other Variations

Traits, Situations, and Interactionism

Interactionism becomes a New Trait View: Context-Dependent Expression of Personality

Assessment

Problems in Behavior, and Behavior Change

Trait Psychology: Problems and Prospects

Chapter 5: The Motive Perspective

Basic Theoretical Elements

Needs, Motives, and Personality

Studies of Specific Dispositional Motives

Implicit and Self-Attributed Motives

Approach and Avoidance Motives

Motives and the Five Factor Trait Model

Personology and the Study of Narratives

Assessment

Problems in Behavior, and Behavior Change

Motive Theories: Problems and Prospects

Chapter 6: Genetics, Evolution, and Personality

Determining Genetic Influence on Personality

What Personality Qualities are Genetically Influenced?

New Approaches to Genetics and Personality

Environmental Effects

Evolution and Human Behavior

Assessment

Problems in Behavior, and Behavior Change

Genetics and Evolution: Problems and Prospects

Chapter 7: Biological Processes and Personality

Early Ideas: Eysenck’s Views on Brain Functions

Incentive Approach System

Behavioral Avoidance, or Withdrawal System

Relating Approach and Avoidance Systems to Traits or Temperaments

A Third Dimension: Sensation Seeking, Constraint, and Effortful Control

Hormones and Personality

Assessment

Problems in Behavior, and Behavior Change

Biological Processes and Personality: Problems and Prospects

Chapter 8: The Psychoanalytic Perspective

Basic Themes

The Topographical Model of Mind

Aspects of Personality: The Structural Model

Motivation: The Drives of Personality

Anxiety and Mechanisms of Defense

Psychosexual Development

Exposing the Unconscious

Assessment: Projective Techniques

Problems in Behavior, and Behavior Change

The Psychoanalytic Perspective: Problems and Prospects

Chapter 9: Psychosocial Theories

Object Relations Theories

Attachment Theory and Personality

Erikson’s Theory of Psychosocial Development

Assessment

Problems in Behavior, and Behavior Change

Psychosocial Theories: Problems and Prospects

Chapter 10: The Learning Perspective

Classical Conditioning

Instrumental Conditioning

Social and Cognitive Variations

Observational Learning

Modeling of Aggression and the Issue of Media Violence

Assessment

Problems in Behavior, and Behavior Change

The Learning Prospective: Problems and Prospects

Chapter 11: Self-Actualization and Self-Determination

Self-Actualization

Self-Determination

The Self and Processes of Defense

Self-Actualization and Maslow’s Hierarchy of Motives

Existential Psychology: Being and Death

Assessment

Problems in Behavior, and Behavior Change

Self-Actualization and Self-Determination: Problems and Prospects

Chapter 12: The Cognitive Perspective

Representing Your Experience of the World

Activation of Memories

Connectionist Views of Mental Organization

Broader Views on Cognition and Personality

Assessment

Problems in Behavior, and Behavior Change

The Cognitive Perspective: Problems and Prospects

Chapter 13: The Self-Regulation Perspective

From Cognition to Behavior

Self-Regulation and Feedback Control

Further Themes in Self-Regulation

Assessment

Problems in Behavior, and Behavior Change

The Self-Regulation Perspective: Problems and Prospects

Chapter 14: Personality in Perspective: Overlap and Integration

Similarities among Perspectives

Recurrent Themes, Viewed from Different Angles

Combining Perspectives

Which Theory is Best?


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