Synopses & Reviews
Designed to prepare readers to apply theories of personality to understanding particular individuals who they may encounter in professional work and in their personal lives, this engaging volume provides an overview of major classic and current theories of personality, together with clear explanation of the latest research. It brings the theories to life through the interpretation of illustrative historic and current biographies. This book covers the important theories in personality research—psychoanalysis, individual psychology, personological trait theory, psychoanalytic learning theory, behaviorism, cognitive social learning theory—as well as the people that pioneered those theories—Freud, Adler, Allport, Skinner, Staats, Dollard, Miller, Mischel, and Bandura. For anyone who wants a better handle on understanding the people in their professional and personal lives.
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This new and exciting American Psychological Reader, edited by Carolyn C. Morf, University of Bern, and Ozlem Ayduk, University of California, includes over 20 articles that have been carefully selected for an audience new to the field, and taken from the very accessible Current Directions in Psychological Science journal. These timely, cutting-edge articles offer real-world perspective-from a reliable source-about today's most current and pressing issues in personality psychology. For those interested in the psychology of personality.
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The American Psychological Society is dedicated to advancing psychology as a science-based discipline. APS members include the field's most respected researchers and educators representing the full range of topics within psychological science. The Society is widely recognized as a leading voice for the science of psychology in Washington, and is focused on increasing public understanding and use of the knowledge generated by psychological research.
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This package contains the following components:
-013191989X: Current Directions in Personality Psychology
-0131444514: Personality and Personal Growth
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1 Introduction to Personality Theory
Part I The Psychoanalytic Perspective
Chapter 2 Freud: Classical Psychoanalysis
Chapter 3 Jung: Analytical Psychology
Part II The Psychoanalytic-Social Perspective
Chapter 4 Adler: Individual Psychology
Chapter 5 Erikson: Psychosocial Development
Chapter 6 Horney and Relational Theory: Interpersonal
Psychoanalytic Theory
Part III The Trait Perspective
Chapter 7 Allport: Personological Trait Theory
Chapter 8 Cattell and the Big Five: Factor Analytic Trait Theories
Chapter 9 Evolution, Eysenck, Gray, and Others: Biological Theories
Part IV The Learning Perspective
Chapter 10 Skinner and Staats: The Challenge of Behaviorism
Chapter 11 Dollard and Miller: Psychoanalytic Learning Theory
Part V The Cognitive Social Learning Perspective
Chapter 12 Mischel and Bandura: Cognitive Social Learning Theory
Chapter 13 Kelly: Personal Construct Theory
Part VI The Humanistic Perspective
Chapter 14 Rogers: Person-Centered Theory
Chapter 15 Maslow: Need Hierarchy Theory
Chapter 16 Buddhist Psychology: Lessons from Eastern Culture
Chapter 17 Conclusion