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Overview
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 apply to their own lives.
This book describes a range of viewpoints that are used by personality psychologists today. Each perspective on personality is presented in a pair of chapters, introduced by a prologue that provides an overview of that perspective’s orienting assumptions and core themes. By starting with these orienting assumptions, you’ll be placed right inside the thought processes of the theorists, as you go on to read the chapters themselves. Each chapter concludes with a discussion of current problems within that theoretical viewpoint and the authors’ analysis about its future prospects. The result is a book that is engaging and enjoyable as well as informative.
Learning Goals
Upon completing this book, readers should be able to:
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Meet the Author
Charles S. Carver and Michael F. Scheier met in graduate school at the University of Texas at Austin, where they both earned Ph.D. degrees in personality psychology. After graduation, they took jobs at the University of Miami and Carnegie Mellon University, respectively, where they have remained throughout their careers. They’ve collaborated for over three and a half decades in work that spans personality, social, motivational, clinical, and health psychology. In 1998, they received awards for Outstanding Scientific Contribution (Senior Level) from the Division of Health Psychology of the American Psychological Association. In 2007, they received the Donald T. Campbell Award for Distinguished Contributions to Social Psychology from APA’s Division of Personality and Social Psychology. Mike was the 2003—2004 President of APA’s Division of Health Psychology and currently serves as Department Head at CMU. Along with seven editions of Perspectives on Personality, the authors have published two books on self-regulation (the more recent titled On the Self-Regulation of Behavior, in 1998) and over 310 articles and chapters. Mike is an avid outdoorsman, hunter, and fisherman. Chuck keeps intending to take up painting but getting distracted by things that need fixing.
Table of Contents
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?