Theories Of Personality 10th Edition
by Ryckman All 18 Chapters Covered
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PART I: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE DISCIPLINE.
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1. Personality and the Scientific Outlook. W
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PART II: PSYCHOANALYTIC AND NEOANALYTIC PERSPECTIVES.
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2. Freud's Psychoanalytic Perspectives.
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3. Jung's Analytical Psychology.
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4. Adler's Individual Psychology.
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5. Horney's Social and Cultural Psychoanalysis.
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6. Erikson's Psychoanalytic Ego Psychology.
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7. Kohut's Self Psychology.WQ WQ
PART III: TRAIT PERSPECTIVES.
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8. Allport's Trait Theory. WQ WQ
9. Cattell's Structure-Based Systems Theory.
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10. Eysenck's Biological Typology. WQ WQ
PART IV: COGNITIVE PERSPECTIVES.
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11. Kelly's Theory of Personal Constructs.
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,PART V: HUMANISTIC/EXISTENTIAL PERSPECTIVES.
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12. Maslow's Self-Actualization Position.
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13. Roger's Person-Centered Theory.
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14. May's Existential-Analytic Position.
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PART VI: SOCIAL-BEHAVIORISTIC PERSPECTIVES.
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15. Skinner's Operant Analysis. WQ WQ
16. Rotter's Expectancy Reinforcement Value Model.
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17. Bandura's Social Cognitive Theory. WQ WQ WQ
PART VII: THE ROLE OF THE GRAND THEORIES IN CONTEMPOR
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ARY PERSONALITY PSYCHOLOGY.
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18. Theory and Research in Contemporary Personality Psychology.
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I. Why study personality? The study of human personality helps us understand ourselves and
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other people better and gives us a greater appreciation for the complexity of human exp
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erience.
II. Definition of Personality: Personality is the dynamic and organized set of characteristics
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possessed by an individual that uniquely influences his or her cognitions, motivations and
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III. Personality and Science: Personality is a scientific enterprise concerned with the description,
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explanation, prediction, and control of events. WQ WQ WQ WQ WQ
A. Components of Science: Theories and Research Methods WQ WQ WQ WQ WQ WQ
1. What are theories? A theory is a system of interrelated conceptual statements that ar
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e created by investigators to account for a phenomenon or a set of phenomena.
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2. Kinds of theories WQ WQ
a. inductive-sets of general summary statements about phenomena derived from facts. WQ WQ WQ WQ WQ WQ WQ WQ WQ
b. deductive-
theories in which specific hypotheses are derived from abstract propositions and then t
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ested by the collection of data. Deductive theories consist of postulates, proposition
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s, conceptual definitions, operational definitions, hypotheses, and empirical observatio
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1. postulates-the fundamental or core assumptions of a theory. They are taken as self-
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evidently true in order to provide a clear and focused direction for theorizing an
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d research.
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2. propositions-
general relational statements that may be true or false. They are not tested directly; inste
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ad, hypotheses are derived from them.
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3. hypotheses-
specific propositions containing constructs that are conceptually defined and operational
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ized so they can tested and confirmed or disconfirmed through empirical testing. Hyp
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otheses are tentative theoretical statements about how events are related to one another
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, often stated as predictions.
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a. a prior predictions-predictions made before the collection of data.
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concepts in the hypotheses are defined precisely so that accurate measures of the conc
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5. operational definitions- procedures (or operations) used to define particular constructs.
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6. empirical observations-observations of phenomena made by investigators.
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