Psychology Express: Personality and Individual Differences

Auteur

Steph Acaster is an associate lecturer at The Open University.

Résumé

Discover the ultimate revision guide for psychology students to help you excel in your assessments!

Psychology Express: Personality and Individual Differences, 2nd edition is a concise, comprehensive and engaging guide, packed with resources that will help you to plan, prepare and practice for all your undergraduate assessments in this subject.

The guide covers all core concepts you need to know in accordance with QAA and BPS subject guidelines and emerging topics in virtual reality and artificial intelligence. It provides a framework for success through features such as topic maps, revision checklists, key terms, summaries of key studies and further reading suggestions.

To make your revision even more effective you can assess your progress with test questions, compare your answers with answer guidelines and evaluate sample answers to improve your own assessment technique.

This revision guide is part of the Psychology Express series, covering the complete knowledge base of psychology, designed to complement your lectures, seminars, and additional reading to make sure that you are confident going in to all of your assessments. Preparing for different types of assessments can be challenging, but this guide will give you all of the tools you need to succeed in your assignments. Whether you're facing exams, research papers, presentations, or group projects, you'll find valuable tips and strategies to excel.

To support your learning journey, a companion website provides additional resources for self-testing and answers to questions in the book.

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Acknowledgements

Introduction

Guided tour

1. Introduction
2. Dispositional approaches to personality
3. Biological theories of personality
4. Learning theory models of personality
5. Cognitive and humanistic (phenomenological) models of personality
6. Psychodynamic personality theories
7. Stability, consistency and change in personality traits
8. Describing intelligence
9. Explaining intelligence
10. Psychometrics
11. Applications of personality and individual differences

Glossary of terms

References

Index