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The various perspectives of the field of personality provide the organizing framework for this text. Each perspective is presented in two chapters and is introduced by a prologue that describes the assumptions and themes of the perspective.
As the book’s title implies, there are many perspectives a person might take on personality, many ways to think about human nature. 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. The prologue 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. Written in an informal, conversation style, Carver and Scheier draw students into the ideas and give them examples of how these ideas can apply to their own life. The result is a book that is engaging and enjoyable as well as informative.
Q: How much do you emphasize research in your course?
A: The authors believe that ideas and intuitions are valuable, but an idea shouldn’t lie around too long before someone checks to see whether it actually works. For this reason, along with each theory, we discuss research that bears on the theory. This emphasis on the role of research stresses the fact that personality psychology is a living, dynamic process of ongoing scientific exploration.
Q: Do you like the freedom to teach this course in whatever fashion you want?
A: Each theoretical section of the book is intended to stand on its own, with no assumptions about previous exposure to other parts of the book. Thus, instructors can move through the perspectives in whatever order they prefer.
Q: Do you encourage your students to think critically about personality theories and the theorists they came from?
A: “The Theorist and the Theory” boxes focus on how the personal experiences of some of the theorists have influenced the form their theories took. In several cases, theorists almost literally took events from their own lives as models of human events more generally, and went on to derive an entire theory from those personal experiences. Not all cases are quite this striking, but personal experience does appear to have played a role in the development of several views of personality.
Q: Do you wish your current text clarified how the various theories can be blended with each other, showing synthesis of disparate elements?
A: The final chapter of this text takes up the question of how different views relate to each other. The main goal of this chapter is to tie together ideas from theories discussed separately in earlier chapters. A second goal is to consider the usefulness of blending theoretical viewpoints, treating theories as complementary to each other rather than as competitors or as right/wrong.
- Updated throughout, the content of this edition differs in several ways from that of the fifth edition. These changes reflect four years of rapid change in the continually evolving research literature of personality psychology.
- Most up-to-date treatment available! The incredibly rapid advances in behavioral genetics, molecular genetics, temperament, neurotransmitters, and other biological processes have been integrated into Chapter 6 and an extensively reorganized Chapter 7, “Biological Processes and Personality”.
- Revised Chapter 4, “Types, Traits, and Interactionism,” incorporates the continuing advances on trait structure and how traits influence behavior (mostly within the framework of the five-factor model). The five-factor model is also mentioned in several other chapters.
- Revised chapter on Psychosocial Issues (Ch.14) now includes examination of adult attachment patterns and their impact on personality and social behavior, as well as discussion of work on models relating to self-actualization (self-determination theory, terror management theory).
- Includes new material and reorganization in both chapters of the Cognitive Self-Regulation perspective, including a discussion of connectionist models, contextual models of behavior, and a discussion of process by which intentions are implemented.
- Includes 300 new citations, ensuring that the newest research is well represented.
Part One: An introduction 1
1 WHAT IS PERSONALITY
PSYCHOLOGY? 3
Defining Personality 3
Why Use Personality as a Concept? 4
A Working Definition 5
Two Fundamental Themes in Personality Psychology 5
Theory in Personality Psychology 6
What Do Theories Do? 6
Evaluating Theories:The Role of Research 7
What Else Makes a Theory Good? 8
Perspectives On Personality 9
Groupings among Theories 9
How Distinct Are the Perspectives? 10
Another Kind of Perspective 11
Organization Within Chapters 11
Assessment 12
Problems in Behavior, and Behavior Change 12
Summary 12
2 METHODS IN THE STUDY OF
PERSONALITY 14
Gathering Information 14
Sources: Observe Yourself and Observe Others 14
Seeking Depth: Case Studies 15
Seeking Generality: Studies of Many People 16
Establishing Relationships Among Variables 17
Correlation between Variables 18
Two Kinds of Significance 20
Causality and a Limitation on Inference 20
Search for Causality: Experimental Research 21
Recognizing Types of Study 24
What Kind of Research Is Best? 24
Multifactor Studies 25
Reading Figures from Multifactor Research 26
Summary 27
3 ISSUES IN PERSONALITY
ASSESSMENT 28
Sources of Information 28
Reliability of Measurement 30
Internal Consistency 30
Inter-Rater Reliability 31
Stability across Time 32
Validity of Measurement 32
Construct Validity 33
Criterion Validity 34
Convergent Validity 34
Discriminant Validity 35
Face Validity 35
Culture and Validity 36
Response Sets and Loss of Validity 36
Two Rationales Behind The Development of Assessment Devices 37
Rational, or Theoretical,Approach 38
Empirical Approaches 38
Better Assessment: A Never-Ending Search 39
Summary 40
Part Two: The Dispositional Perspective:
Major Themes and Underlying
Assumptions 43
4 TYPES, TRAITS, AND
INTERACTIONISM 45
Types and Traits 45
Nomothetic and Idiographic Views of Traits 46
What Traits Matter? 46
A Key Tool: Factor Analysis 47
Let Reality Reveal Itself: Cattell’s Approach 49
Start from a Theory: Eysenck’s Approach 50
Another Theoretical Starting Point:The Interpersonal Circle 52
The Five-Factor Model:The Basic
Dimensions of Personality? 52
What Are the Five Factors? 53
Reflections of the Five Factors in Behavior 55
The Five-Factor Model in Relation to Earlier Models 57
Some Additional Variations and Some Cautions 58
Are Superordinate Traits the Best Level to Use? 59
Traits, Situations, and Interactionism 59
Is Behavior Actually Traitlike? 59
Situationism 60
Interactionism 60
Individual Differences in Consistency 61
Other Aspects of Interactionism 62
Was the Problem Ever Really as Bad as It Seemed? 62
Interactionism Becomes A New View of Traits: Context-Dependent Expression of Personality 63
Fitting the Pieces Together:Views of Traits and Behavior 64
Assessment 65
Comparing Individuals: Personality Profiles 65
Problems in Behavior, and Behavior Change 66
The Five-Factor Model and Personality Disorders 67
Interactionism in Behavior Problems 68
Behavior Change 68
Trait Psychology: Problems and Prospects 68
Summary 70
5 NEEDS AND MOTIVES 72
Basic Theoretical Elements 73
Needs 73
Motives 74
Press 74
Needs, Motives, and Personality 75
MotiveStates and Motive Dispositions 75
Murray’s System of Needs 76
Measuring Motives:The Thematic Apperception Test 76
Studies of Specific Dispositional Needs 78
Need for Achievement 78
Need for Power 80
Need for Affiliation 82
Need for Intimacy 83
Patterned Needs: inhibited Power Motive 84
Implicit and Self-Attributed Motives 85
Incentive Value 85
Implicit Motives Are Different From Self-Attributed Motives 86
Approach and Avoidance Motives 87
Approach and Avoidance in Other Motives 88
The Methods of Personology 89
Assessment 89
Motives and the Five-Factor Trait Model 91
Traits and Motives as Distinct and Complementary 91
Problems in Behavior, and Behavior Change 92
Need for Power and Alcohol Abuse 92
Focusing On and Changing Motivation 93
Need and Motive Theories: Problems and Prospects 94
Summary 95
Part Three: The Biological Perspective:
Major Themes and Underlying
Assumptions 99
6 INHERITANCE, EVOLUTION, AND
PERSONALITY 101
Determining The Role of Inheritance in Personality 102
Twin Study Method 103
Adoption Research 104
What Personality Qualities Are Inherited?105
Temperaments:Activity, Sociability, and Emotionality 105
Other Views of Temperaments 106
Inheritance of Traits 107
Temperaments and the Five-Factor Model 108
Genetics of Other Qualities: How Distinct Are They? 108
Inheritance and Sexual Orientation 109
Molecular Genetics and New Sources of Evidence 110
Environmental Effects 111
The Size of Environmental Influences 111
The Nature of Environmental Influences 112
Evolution and Human Behavior 112
Sociobiology and Evolutionary Psychology 113
Genetic Similarity and Attraction 115
Mate Selection and Competition for Mates 116
Mate Retention and Other Issues 118
Aggression and the Young Male Syndrome 119
Assessment 120
Problems in Behavior, and Behavior Change 121
Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder 121
Substance Use and Antisocial Behavior 122
Evolution and Problems in Behavior 123
Behavior Change: How Much Is Possible? 123
Inheritance and Evolution: Problems and Prospects 124
Summary 126
7 BIOLOGICAL PROCESSES AND
PERSONALITY 128
Eysenck: Extraversion, Neuroticism, and Brain Functions 129
Extraversion and Cortical Arousal 129
Neuroticism and Emotional Arousal 130
Incentive Approach System 130
Behavioral Approach,Activation, Engagement, or Facilitation 131
More Issues in Approach 132
Neurotransmitters and the Approach System 132
Behavioral Avoidance, or Withdrawal, System 134
A Revised View of BIS Function 135
Neurotransmitters and the Avoidance System 135
Relating Approach and Avoidance Systems to Traits or Temperaments 136
The Role of Sociability 136
The Role of Impulsivity 137
Impulse, Constraint, Sensation Seeking, and Effortful Control 138
Functions of the Sensation-SeekingDimension 138
Relating IUSS to Traits or Temperaments 139
Two Sources of Impulse and Restraint 139
Neurotransmitters and Impulse versus Constraint 140
Hormones and Personality 142
Hormones, the Body, and the Brain 142
Early Hormonal Exposure and Behavior 143
Testosterone and Adult Personality 144
Cycle of Testosterone and Action 146
Testosterone, Dominance, and Evolutionary Psychology 147
Responding to Stress: Men,Women, and Oxytocin 148
Assessment 149
Electroencephalograms 149
Neuroimaging 150
Problems in Behavior, and Behavior Change 151
Biological Bases of Anxiety, Depression, and Antisocial Personality 151
Medication in Therapy 152
Biological Processes and Personality: Problems and Prospects 153
Summary 154
Part Four: The Psychoanalytic Perspective:
Major Themes and Underlying
Assumptions 157
8 PSYCHOANALYTIC STRUCTURE AND
PROCESS 160
The Topographical Model of Mind 162
Aspects of Personality:The Structural
Model 163
Id 163
Ego 164
Superego 166
Balancing the Forces 167
Motivation:The Drives of Personality 167
Cathexes and the Use of Energy 169
Two Classes of Drives: Life and Death Instincts 170
Coming together of Libidinal and Aggressive Energies 170
Catharsis 171
Displacement and Sublimation of Motive Forces 172
Psychosexual Development 173
The Oral Stage 174
The Anal Stage 175
The Phallic Stage 176
The Latency Period 179
The Genital Stage 179
Psychoanalytic Structure and Process: Problems and Prospects 180
Summary 182
9 ANXIETY, DEFENSE, AND
SELF-PROTECTION 184
Anxiety 185
Mechanisms of Defense 185
Repression 186
Denial 187
Projection 188
Rationalization 189
Intellectualization 189
Reaction Formation 190
Regression 190
Identification 191
Displacement and Sublimation 191
Research on Defenses 191
Evidence of Unconscious Conflict 192
Exposing the Unconscious 193
The Psychopathology of Everyday Life 193
Dreams 195
Humor 197
Projective Techniques of Assessment 197
Rorschach Inkblot Test 198
Problems in Behavior, and Behavior Change 200
Origins of Problems 200
Behavior Change 201
Does Psychoanalytic Therapy Work? 204
Psychoanalytic Defense: Problems and
Prospects 205
Summary 206
Part Five: The Neoanalytic Perspective:
Major Themes and Underlying
Assumptions 209
10 EGO PSYCHOLOGY 211
Principles of Ego Psychology 213
Shifting the Emphasis from the Id to the Ego 213
Adaptation and Autonomy 214
The Ego,Adaptation, and Competence Motivation 215
Is Competence Striving Automatic, or Is It Done to Remedy inferiority? 216
Ego Control and Ego Resiliency 217
Ego Control, Ego Resiliency, and the Five-Factor Model 220
Ego Development 220
Early Ego Development 221
Middle Stages of Ego Development: Control of Impulses 222
Advanced Stages of Ego Development:Taking Even More into Account 223
Research on Ego Development 224
Ego Development and the Five-Factor Model 226
Assessment 226
Assessment of Lifestyles 227
Assessment of Level of Ego Development 227
Problems in Behavior, and Behavior Change 228
Inferiority and Superiority Complexes 228
Overcontrol and Undercontrol 230
Behavior Change 230
Ego Psychology: Problems and Prospects 230
Summary 232
11 PSYCHOSOCIAL THEORIES 234
Object Relations Theories 234
Self Psychology 236
Attachment Theory and Personality 237
Attachment Patterns in Adults 239
How Many Patterns? 240
Stability and Specificity 240
Other Reflections of Adult Attachment 241
Attachment Patterns and the Five-Factor Model 243
Erikson’s Theory of Psychosocial Development 243
Ego Identity, Competence, and the Experience of Crisis 244
Infancy 245
Early Childhood 245
Preschool 246
School Age 247
Adolescence 247
Young Adulthood 249
Adulthood 250
Old Age 251
The Epigenetic Principle 251
Identity as Life Story 252
Linking Erikson’s Theory to Other Psychosocial Theories 253
Assessment 253
Object Relations,Attachment, and the Focus of Assessment 253
Play in Assessment 254
Problems in Behavior, and Behavior Change 255
Narcissism as a Disorder of Personality 255
Basic Anxiety,Vicious Cycles, and Neurotic Needs 255
Attachment and Depression 257
Behavior Change 258
Psychosocial Theories: Problems and Prospects 259
Summary 259
Part Six: The Learning Perspective:
Major Themes and Underlying
Assumptions 263
12 CONDITIONING THEORIES 265
Classical Conditioning 266
Basic Elements 266
Classical Conditioning as Anticipatory Learning 267
Discrimination, Generalization, and Extinction in Classical Conditioning 268
Emotional Conditioning 270
Instrumental Conditioning 270
The Law of Effect 270
Reinforcement and Punishment 272
Discrimination, Generalization, and Extinction in Instrumental Conditioning 273
Altering the Shape of Behavior 275
Schedules of Reinforcement 275
The Partial Reinforcement Effect 277
Learning “Irrational” Behavior 278
Reinforcement of Qualities of Behavior 279
Assessment 279
Techniques 280
Problems in Behavior, and Behavior Change 281
Classical Conditioning of Emotional Responses 281
Additional Benefits 283
Classical Conditioning of Aversion 284
Conditioning and Context 284
Instrumental Conditioning and Maladaptive Behaviors 285
Instrumental Conditioning of Conflict 286
Instrumental Conditioning and Biofeedback 286
Conditioning Theories: Problems and Prospects 287
Summary 288
13 SOCIAL—COGNITIVE LEARNING
THEORIES 291
Elaborations On Conditioning
Processes 292
Social Reinforcement 292
Vicarious Emotional Arousal 293
Vicarious Reinforcement 294
Semantic Generalization 295
Rule-Based Learning 295
Expectancies Concerning Outcomes 296
Locus-of-Control Expectancies 297
Efficacy Expectancies 299
Observational Learning 301
Acquisition versus Performance 303
Manifestations of Cognitive and Social
Learning 304
Modeling and Sex-Role Acquisition 304
Modeling of Aggression and the Issue of Media
Violence 306
Assessment 307
Problems in Behavior, and Behavior
Change 308
Conceptualizing Behavioral Problems 308
Modeling-Based Therapy for Skill Deficits 309
Modeling and Responses to Fear 311
Therapeutic Changes in Efficacy Expectancy 311
Self-instructions and Cognitive Behavioral Modification 313
Social—Cognitive Learning Theories: Problems and Prospects 314
Summary 315
Part Seven: The Phenomenological
Perspective: Major Themes and
Underlying Assumptions 319
14 HUMANISTIC PSYCHOLOGY:
SELF-ACTUALIZATION AND
SELF-DETERMINATION 321
Self-Actualization 322
The Need for Positive Regard 322
Contingent Self-Worth 324
Self-Determination 325
Introjection and Identification 325
Need for Relatedness 326
Self-Concordance 327
Free Will 327
The Self and Processes of Defense 328
Incongruity, Disorganization, and Defense 328
Self-Esteem Maintenance and Enhancement 329
Self-Handicapping 331
Stereotype Threat 331
Self-Actualization and Maslow’s Hierarchy of
Motives 332
Characteristics of Frequent Self-Actualizers 334
Peak Experiences 336
Existential Psychology: Being and Death 337
The Existential Dilemma 337
Emptiness 338
Terror Management 338
Assessment 340
Interviews in Assessment 340
Measuring the Self-Concept by Q-Sort 341
Measuring Self-Actualization 342
Measuring Autonomy and Control 342
Problems in Behavior, and Behavior Change 343
Client-Centered Therapy 344
Beyond Therapy to Personal Growth 345
Humanistic Theories: Problems and Prospects 345
Summary 347
15 PERSONAL CONSTRUCTS 350
Personal Constructs and Personality 351
Using Constructs 352
Constructs Are Bipolar 353
The Role of Recurrences 354
Range and Focus of Convenience 354
Elaboration and Change in Construct Systems 355
Organization among Constructs 356
Individuality of Constructs 357
Similarities and Differences between People 359
Role Taking 359
Personal Constructs and Behavioral Consistency 360
Assessment 361
Kelly’s Role Construct Repertory Test 361
Problems in Behavior, and Behavior Change 362
Personal Constructs and Psychological Distress 363
Dealing with Anxiety and Threat 364
Fixed-Role Therapy 365
Personal Construct Theory: Problems and Prospects 366
Summary 367
Part Eight: The Cognitive Self-Regulation
Perspective: Major Themes and Underlying
Assumptions 369
16 CONTEMPORARY COGNITIVE VIEWS 372
Representing Your Experience Of The World 373
Schemas and Their Development 373
Effects of Schemas 373
Semantic Memory, Episodic Memory, and Scripts 374
Socially Relevant Schemas 375
Self-Schemas 375
Entity versus incremental Schemas 376
Attribution 377
Activation of Memories 378
Priming and the Use of Information 379
Nonconscious Influences on Behavior 380
Connectionist Views of Mental Organization 381
Dual-Process Models 383
Explicit and Implicit Knowledge 385
Broader Views On Cognition and Personality 386
Cognitive Person Variables 386
Personality as a Cognitive—Affective Processing System 388
Assessment 389
Think-Aloud, Experience Sampling, and Self-Monitoring 390
Contextualized Assessment 391
Diagnostic Categories as Fuzzy Sets 391
Problems in Behavior, and Behavior Change 392
Information-Processing Deficits 392
Depressive Self-Schemas 392
Cognitive Therapy 394
Contemporary Cognitive Theories: Problems and Prospects 395
Summary 396
17 SELF-REGULATION 398
From Cognition to Behavior 399
Schemas and Actions 379
Intentions 399
Goals 400
Goal Setting 400
Implementation intentions and the Importance of Strategies 401
Deliberative and Implemental Mindsets 402
Self-Regulation and Feedback Control 402
Feedback Control 402
Self-Directed Attention and the Action of the Comparator 404
Hierarchical Organization 405
Issues Concerning Hierarchical Organization 407
Evidence of Hierarchies 407
Emotions 408
Effects of Expectancies: Effort versus Disengagement 409
Partial Disengagement 410
Further Themes in Self-Regulation 411
Approach and Avoidance 411
Intention-Based and Stimulus-Based Action 411
Self-Regulation As Self-Control 413
Assessment 414
Assessment of Self-Regulatory Qualities 414
Assessment of Goals 415
Problems in Behavior, and Behavior Change 415
Problems as Conflicts among Goals and Lack of Strategy Specifications 415
Problems from an inability to Disengage 416
Self-Regulation and the Process of Therapy 417
Therapy is Training in Problem Solving 418
Self-Regulation Theories: Problems and Prospects 419
Summary 420
Part Nine: Personality in
Perspective 423
18 OVERLAP AND INTEGRATION 425
Similarities Among Perspectives 426
Psychoanalysis and Biology: Evolutionary Psychology and the Structural Model 426
Psychoanalysis and Evolutionary Psychology:Fixations and Mating Patterns 427
Psychoanalysis and Conditioning 428
Psychoanalysis and Self-Regulation: Hierarchy and the Structural Model 429
Psychoanalysis and Cognitive Processes 429
Social Learning and Cognitive Self-Regulation Views 431
Neoanalytic and Cognitive Self-Regulation Perspectives 433
Maslow’s Hierarchy and Hierarchies of Self-Regulation 434
Self-Actualization and Self-Regulation 435
Dispositions and Their Equivalents in Other Models 435
Recurrent Themes,Viewed From Different Angles 435
Impulse and Restraint 436
Individual versus Group Needs 437
Combining Perspectives 437
Eclecticism 438
An Example: Biology and Learning as Complementary Influences on Personality 438
Which Theory Is Best? 439
Summary 440
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The various perspectives of the field of personality provide the organizing framework: each perspective is presented in two chapters and is introduced by a prologue that describes the assumptions and themes of the perspective.
Engaging and very successful, this new edition introduces hundreds of new citations; presents the ideas logically and orderly and concludes with a unique Integration chapter that brings the various perspectives together.
Perspectives on Personality, 6/e
As the book’s title implies, there are many perspectives a person might take on personality, and many ways to think about human nature. 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. The prologue 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. Each chapter concludes with a discussion of current problems within that theoretical viewpoint and the authors’ analysis about its future prospects. Writing in an informal, conversational style, Carver and Scheier draw readers into the ideas and give them examples of how these ideas apply to their own lives. The result is a book that is engaging and enjoyable as well as informative.
New to this Edition:
- Updated content reflects four years of rapid change in the research literature of personality psychology.
- Provides the most up-to-date treatment available! The incredibly rapid advances in behavioral genetics, molecular genetics, temperament, neurotransmitters, and other biological processes have been integrated into Chapter 6, “Interitance, Evolution, and Personality,” and an extensively reorganized Chapter 7, “Biological Processes and Personality.”
- Includes new material and reorganization in Part 8, “The Cognitive Self-Regulation Perspective,” including a discussion of connectionist models, contextual models of behavior, and a discussion of the process by which intentions are implemented.
- Includes 300 new citations, ensuring that the newest research is well represented.
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Perspectives on Personality, CourseSmart eTextbook, 6/E
Carver & Scheier
© 2008 | Allyn & Bacon | Electronic Book; 560 pages | Instock
ISBN-10: 0205614353 | ISBN-13: 9780205614356
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Perspectives on Personality, eTextbook, 6/E
Carver & Scheier
© 2008 | Allyn & Bacon | Café Scribe; 560 pages | Estimated Availability: 05/01/2007
ISBN-10: 020563835X | ISBN-13: 9780205638352
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- Places a strong emphasis on behavior. Social issues are presented in a fashion that makes them relevant to the students; sex, hunger, sleep, and drug addiction are topics that are presented in a balanced, and often humorous, manner.
- Emphasizes four themes – “Thinking Clearly,” “Clinical Implications,” “The Evolutionary Perspective,” and “Cognitive Neuroscience” – that are integral to each chapter and that are highlighted throughout by marginal icons.
- Effectively stimulates interest, illustrates key concepts, and emphasizes clinical applications with numerous case studies woven through the text.
- Embraces diversity and stresses that the success of biopsychological research often results from the convergence of its diverse approaches.
- Also includes Beyond the Brain and Behavior CD-ROM.
Basics of Biopsychology (Book Alone)
Pinel
© 2007 | Allyn & Bacon | CD-ROM Only; 624 pages | Instock
ISBN-10: 0205461085 | ISBN-13: 9780205461080
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Biopsychology (Book Alone), 7/E
Pinel
© 2009 | Allyn & Bacon | Cloth; 608 pages | Instock
ISBN-10: 020554892X | ISBN-13: 9780205548927
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Foundations of Physiological Psychology (Book alone), 7/E
Carlson
© 2008 | Allyn & Bacon | CD-ROM Only; 576 pages | Instock
ISBN-10: 0205519407 | ISBN-13: 9780205519408
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Human Sexuality in a World of Diversity, 7/E
Rathus, Nevid & Fichner-Rathus
© 2008 | Allyn & Bacon | Cloth; 752 pages | Instock
ISBN-10: 0205532918 | ISBN-13: 9780205532919
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Pearson
© 2008 | Allyn & Bacon | Website | Instock
ISBN-10: 0205578322 | ISBN-13: 9780205578320
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Personality: Classic Theories and Modern Research, 4/E
Friedman & Schustack
© 2009 | Allyn & Bacon | Cloth; 592 pages | Instock
ISBN-10: 020557968X | ISBN-13: 9780205579686
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Perspectives on Personality, 6/E
Carver & Scheier
© 2008 | Allyn & Bacon | Cloth; 560 pages | Instock
ISBN-10: 0205522629 | ISBN-13: 9780205522620
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Physiology of Behavior (Book Alone), 9/E
Carlson
© 2007 | Allyn & Bacon | Cloth; 752 pages | Instock
ISBN-10: 0205467245 | ISBN-13: 9780205467242
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Theories of Personality: A Zonal Perspective
Berecz
© 2009 | Allyn & Bacon | Cloth; 624 pages | Instock
ISBN-10: 0205439160 | ISBN-13: 9780205439164
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Basics of Biopsychology is a unique combination of science and personal reader-oriented discourse weaving the fundamentals of the field with clinical case studies, social issues, personal implications and humorous anecdotes. It is a friendly mentor that speaks directly to students.
Basics of Biopsychology conveys the excitement of scientific inquiry for students with little background in the biological sciences. Pedagogy facilitates the acquisition and retention of information with an emphasis on clear thinking and a youthful design that will immediately attract and engage students, lots of interest-generating photos and illustrations, and chapter-ending visual summaries. It also offers a convenient organization with 5 sections of 3 chapters each.
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Biopsychology clearly presents the fundamentals of the study of the biology of behavior and makes the topics personally and socially relevant to the student.
The defining feature of Biopsychology is its unique combination of biopsychological science and personal, reader-oriented discourse. It is a textbook that is “untextbooklike.” Rather than introducing biopsychology in the usual textbook fashion, it interweaves the fundamentals of the field with clinical case studies, social issues, personal implications, and humorous anecdotes. It tries to be a friendly mentor that speaks directly to the reader, enthusiastically relating recent advances in biopsychological science.
Foundations of Physiological Psychology offers a briefer, sixteen chapter introduction to the foundations of physiology, incorporating the latest studies and research in the rapidly changing fields of neuroscience and physiological psychology.
The text uses many human examples, case studies, and MyPsychKit featuring Carlson’s Neuroscience Animations to help make the material interesting and relevant to student readers. Foundations of Physiological Psychology is ideal for the instructor who wants a briefer text with a balance of human and animal cases.
The perfect balance between science and pedagogy. Human Sexuality in a World of Diversity, 7e examines the rich diversity found in human sexuality and helps students develop their own opinions by promoting critical thinking skills, personal sexual health awareness, and responsible decision-making. Firmly rooted in science, the text systematically encourages students to apply the research to their own lives.
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This successful text puts “personality” back into the personality course, integrating the classic insights of the personality theorists with modern research in a manner that will fascinate and encourage deeper thought.
This text explores classic theory from a perspective that encourages critical thinking and fosters intellectual insight with respect to human nature. For example, it shows the relevance of classic theory to topics of personality and culture, evolution, ego, gender, and person-situation interactionism.
Employing the highest scientific standards, Personality also uses a wide range of unique and provocative pedagogical devices that have been shown to motivate students. Hailed as the best-written, most relevant personality textbook on the market, Friedman and Schustack's fourth edition brings the field of personality to today's diverse student body.
The various perspectives of the field of personality provide the organizing framework for this text. Each perspective is presented in two chapters and is introduced by a prologue that describes the assumptions and themes of the perspective.
As the book’s title implies, there are many perspectives a person might take on personality, many ways to think about human nature. 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. The prologue 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. Written in an informal, conversation style, Carver and Scheier draw students into the ideas and give them examples of how these ideas can apply to their own life. The result is a book that is engaging and enjoyable as well as informative.
The Ninth Edition of Physiology of Behavior continues its tradition as the most comprehensive, current, and teachable text for physiological psychology.
This extensive revision of a classic text incorporates the latest discoveries in the rapidly changing fields of neuroscience and physiological psychology and offers the most comprehensive and integrative coverage of research and theory in contemporary behavioral neuroscience.
Thoughtfully organized, it offers scholarly, yet accessible coverage and effectively emphasizes the dynamic interaction between biology and behavior. Collaboration with a talented artist has provided beautiful, accurate, and informative full-color illustrations that further enhance the appeal to both students and professors alike.
Instead of using a historical, categorical, or research approach to teaching personality, John M. Berecz maps theories and research onto a zonal grid to facilitate comparison and analysis.
What exactly is a "zone?" Berecz uses a unique and logical organizational structure to sort diverse theories of personality into zones of commonality. Each personality theory is located in a particular zone, based on the level of analysis (micro or macro) and whether the theory focuses mostly on the person or the situation. For example, Skinner's behaviorism (chapter 3) is located in the Situational Zone, while Freud's psychoanalysis (chapter 6) is found in the Insight Zone.
This zonal perspective facilitates learning and retention by providing a broad context within which students can understand and organize information that might otherwise appear as an overwhelming mass of interesting, but disconnected ideas. Using a zonal perspective allows instructors to "connect the dots" among a broad array of diverse theories and research findings.
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