This is completed downloadable of Test Bank for Personality Psychology Foundations and Findings, 1st Edition : Miserandino
Product Details:
- ISBN-10 : 0205738877
- ISBN-13 : 978-0205738878
- Author: Miserandino
This book introduces students to the basic foundations and latest findings by presenting the fundamental questions, accumulated knowledge, and latest findings in genetics, neuroscience, traits, self and identity, intrapsychic aspects, regulation, motivation, and cognition, as well as the integration across these areas.
Personality Psychology is an undergraduate textbook for personality psychology: the study of individual differences, for identifying ways in which people are both similar and different and for explaining how they became that way. Written with an approachable, story-telling style, the author presents an evidence-based text with integrated culture references and the key building blocks of the subject matter: genetics, neuroscience, and cognition. Miserandino is an APA-award winning teacher and has placed learning tools such as self-assessments within each chapter that guide students into a complete understanding throughout the text.
Table of Content:
- Chapter 1 Who Am I? Understanding The Building Blocks of Personality
- What Is Personality Psychology?
- The Building Blocks of Personality
- Traits
- Genetics
- Neuroscience
- Evolutionary Forces
- Self and Identity
- Intrapsychic Foundations of Personality
- Regulation and Motivation: Self-Determination Theory
- Cognitive Foundations
- Putting It All Together: Integration
- Organization of This Book
- How Do Psychologists Study Personality?
- The Scientific Method
- Observational Studies and Personality Questionnaires
- Correlational and Experimental Designs
- Types of Data and Personality Assessment
- Science or Science Fiction? A Brief Introduction to Current Research Findings in Personality Psychology
- Chapter Summary
- Review Questions
- Key Terms
- Chapter 2 Personality Traits: A Good Theory
- What Is a Personality Trait?
- Two Approaches to the Study of Personality Traits
- What Do We Know about Personality from the Idiographic Approach?
- Studying Individual Personalities: The Idiographic Approach
- The Idiographic Approach Applied: The Case of Jenny
- What Do We Know about Personality from the Nomothetic Approach?
- Finding Universals: The Nomothetic Approach
- The Theoretical Approach
- The Lexical Approach
- The Measurement Approach
- The Great Nomothetic Search for Universal Principles of Personality
- Three Superfactors: Eysenck
- Five Factors: The Big Five and the Five-Factor Model
- A Rose by Any Other Name? Two Models of the Five Factors
- Is Five Really the Ultimate Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything?
- A One-Factor Solution
- Six- and Seven-Factor Solutions … and Beyond!
- Chapter Summary
- Review Questions
- Key Terms
- Chapter 3 Personality Traits: Practical Matters
- What’s Missing from the Five Factors?
- Is Intelligence a Personality Trait?
- Is Religiosity a Personality Trait?
- Is Sexuality a Personality Trait?
- Indigenous Personality: Unique Personality Traits?
- The Five Factors in Other Cultures
- Personality Traits Cross-Culturally: Personality Traits in China
- Expression of Traits in Everyday Life
- Music Preferences and Personality Traits
- Webpages and Personality Traits
- Careers and Personality Traits
- Personality Development Over the Lifespan: Continuity, Change, and Coherence
- How Consistent Are People over Time?
- How Much Do People Change in General?
- How and Why Do Individuals Develop in Their Own Particular Ways?
- Where Does Adult Personality Come From?
- Personality Traits: Theoretical and Practical Conclusions
- Chapter Summary
- Review Questions
- Key Terms
- Chapter 4 Personality Assessment
- What Makes a Good Personality Test?
- Test Reliability: Generalizability across Time, Items, and Raters
- Test Validity
- Test Generalizability
- Personality Tests
- Types and Formats of Personality Tests
- Self-Report Tests
- Performance-Based Tests
- Response Sets
- Personality Tests and Selection
- Integrity Testing
- Success Stories
- Legal Issues
- Chapter Summary
- Review Questions
- Key Terms
- Chapter 5 Intrapsychic Foundations of Personality
- Sigmund Freud and Psychoanalysis
- Background
- Instincts: The Connection between Mind and Body
- Uncovering the Unconscious
- Free Association
- Dream Analysis
- Parapraxes: Mistakes in Speaking and Acting
- Humour
- Symbolic Behaviour
- Freud’s View of Personality: The Structural and Topographic Models
- The Structural Model of Personality: Id, Ego, and Superego
- The Topographic Model of Personality: Conscious, Preconscious, Unconscious
- Anxiety and the Defence Mechanisms
- Reaction Formation
- Isolation
- Denial
- Undoing
- Projection
- Displacement
- Sublimation
- Repression
- Rationalization
- Psychosexual Stages
- Oral Stage
- Anal Stage
- Phallic Stage
- Latency Stage
- Genital Stage
- Problems with Freud’s Psychosexual Stages of Development
- Psychodynamic Theory since Freud
- Attachment Theory
- Brief History
- Attachment Patterns for Life?
- Attachment Styles in Adulthood
- Attachment and Adult Personality Functioning
- Chapter Summary
- Review Questions
- Key Terms
- Chapter 6 Self and Identity
- Self-Concept
- How Does the Self-Concept Develop?
- Chimpanzees and Self-Recognition
- Who Is That Baby in the Mirror?
- The Developing Self in School
- Adolescence and the Looking-Glass Self
- Our Grown-Up Selves
- Impact of Culture on Self-Concepts
- Individualism and Collectivism
- Independent and Interdependent Selves
- Possible Selves
- Positive Possible Selves
- Negative Possible Selves
- Self-Esteem
- Self-Esteem Level
- Self-Esteem Stability
- Self-Concept Clarity
- Life Outcomes of High and Low Self-Esteem: Myths and Realities
- Social Identity
- Self-Presentation
- Self-Monitoring
- Chapter Summary
- Review Questions
- Key Terms
- Chapter 7 Genetics
- Nature and Nurture as Allies
- Genes and Environment as Co-Actors
- Heritability
- Environmentality
- Shared and Nonshared Environments
- Estimating Heritability
- Heritability of Common Personality Characteristics
- Genes and Environment: A Dialectical Synthesis
- Genotype–Environment Interactions
- Genotype–Environment Correlations
- Types of Genotype–Environment Correlations
- What’s the Evidence? Researching Genotype–Environment Correlations
- Chapter Summary
- Review Questions
- Key Terms
- Chapter 8 The Neuroscience of Personality
- What Is Neuroscience and How Do We Study It?
- Bodily Responses
- Brain Structure
- Brain Activity
- Biochemical Activity
- Neurological Theories of Personality
- Eysenck’s PEN Model
- Overview of Eysenck’s Three Dimensions
- Neurology of Extraversion
- Neurology of Neuroticism
- Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory (RST)
- Overview of Three Neurological Systems
- Neurology of FFFS, BAS, and BIS
- Neurological Correlates of Personality
- Extraversion and Neuroticism
- Brain Structure Differences in the Cortex and the Amygdala
- The Cortex
- The Amygdala
- Brain Activity Differences in the Cortex, Left–Right Asymmetry, and the Amygdala
- The Cortex
- Left–Right Asymmetry
- The Amygdala
- Biochemical Activity
- Dopamine and Extraversion
- Serotonin and Neuroticism
- Impulsivity and Sensation Seeking
- Bodily Responses
- Brain Activity
- Biochemical Activity
- Conclusion: What Have We Learned From The Neuroscience of Personality?
- Chapter Summary
- Review Questions
- Key Terms
- Chapter 9 Regulation and Motivation: Self-Determination Theory
- Three Fundamental Psychological Needs
- How Do We Satisfy These Needs?
- Fostering Autonomy: Autonomy Support
- Fostering Competence: Structure and Optimal Challenge
- Fostering Relatedness: Involvement
- Connections between Self-Determination Theory and Other Theories in Personality
- Autonomy and Locus of Causality
- Competence and Self-Efficacy Theory
- Relatedness and Attachment Theory
- What It Means to Be Self-Regulated
- Types of Motivation
- Causality Orientations
- Self-Determination Theory Applied
- Health Behaviours
- Sports Behaviours
- Work Behaviours
- The Pursuit of Happiness
- The Tae Bo Study Revisited
- Chapter Summary
- Review Questions
- Key Terms
- Chapter 10 Cognitive Foundations of Personality
- Locus of Control
- Measures of Locus of Control
- Locus of Control and Achievement
- Locus of Control and Work Behaviour
- Locus of Control and Physical and Psychological Health
- Locus of Control and Social Behaviour
- Cultural Differences in Locus of Control
- Learned Helplessness
- Explanatory Style
- Measures of Explanatory Style
- Explanatory Style and Achievement
- School
- Athletics
- Explanatory Style and Work Behaviour
- Explanatory Style and Physical and Psychological Health
- Physical Health
- Psychological Health: Depression
- Explanatory Style and Social Behaviour
- Cultural Differences in Explanatory Style
- Dispositional Optimism
- Measures of Dispositional Optimism
- Dispositional Optimism and Coping
- Optimistic Beliefs and Expectations
- Optimism and Coping Strategies
- Optimists Take Action
- Optimism and Judging Controllability
- Optimistic Beliefs and Physiological Functioning
- Chapter Summary
- Review Questions
- Key Terms
- Chapter 11 Gender and Personality
- Beliefs about Personality Similarities and Differences between Men and Women
- Personality Differences between Men and Women: Fact or Fiction?
- Gender Similarities and Differences in the Five-Factor Model
- Gender Differences in Other Aspects of Personality and Social Behaviour
- Aggression
- Risk Taking
- Gender Differences? It Depends
- Empathy
- Emotions
- Anxiety
- Helping Behaviour
- Leadership
- Influenceability
- Self-Esteem and Self-Confidence
- What Causes Gender Differences?
- Evolution
- Social Context
- Social Role Theory
- Social Construction
- Biopsychosocial Model
- Chapter Summary
- Review Questions
- Key Terms
- Chapter 12 Sexual Orientation: An Integrative Mini-Chapter
- Myths and Misperceptions about Sexual Orientation
- What Is Sexual Orientation?
- How Many People Are Gay, Lesbian, Straight, or Bisexual?
- What Determines Sexual Orientation?
- Biological Explanations of Sexual Orientation
- Evolution
- Genetics
- Brain Structures
- Prenatal Factors
- Hormonal Theories
- Gender Nonconformity
- Stressors during Development
- Fraternal Birth Order and Maternal Immune Response
- Environmental Theories
- Interactionist Theories
- The Exotic Becomes Erotic
- The Biobehavioural Model of Love and Desire: Accounting for the Experiences of Women
- Chapter Summary
- Review Questions
- Key Terms
- Glossary
- References
- Name Index
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