The Personality Puzzle

Höfundur: David C. Funder (Útgáfa: 9)
The Personality Puzzle

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The ultimate reading and active learning experience for personality science. The Personality Puzzle is heralded as the book that helps students think critically about the science of personality and find joy in the journey through David Funder’s unparalleled writing. New for the Ninth Edition, The Personality Puzzle introduces the latest scientific research and relevant social media applications, with a focus on the exciting work of underrepresented psychologists today.

Student learning moves online with a new, assignable, interactive ebook that engages students with active learning opportunities. Students will be able to analyze their own personalities through online Try for Yourself surveys and assess their reading through Check Your Understanding questions that provide retrieval practice in every section. InQuizitive adaptive assessment rounds out the lesson, using research-proven techniques to help students “lock in” what they learn.

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Útgefandi
W. W. Norton
ISBN
9781324060574
Print ISBN
9781324060543
Format
ePub
Útgáfa
9
Höfundar
David C. Funder
Tungumál
English
Útgefið
2024-07-01
Prent takmörkun á líftíma
100
Prent takmörkun
2
Afritunar takmörkun
2

Kaflar

  • Cover
  • Publisher’s Notice
  • Half-title Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • About the Author
  • Quotes
  • Contents in Brief
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Chapter 1: The Study of the Person
  • The Goals of Personality Psychology
  • Appreciating Individual Differences
  • Wrapping It Up
  • Part I: The Science of Personality: Methods and Assessment
  • Chapter 2: Personality Data and Assessment
  • Psychology’s Emphasis on Method
  • Personality Data: Four Kinds of Clues
  • Personality Assessment
  • Conclusion
  • Wrapping It Up
  • Chapter 3: Evaluating Research and Assessment
  • Quality of Data: Psychometrics
  • Research Design
  • Evaluating the Strength of a Finding
  • Ethical Issues
  • Conclusion
  • Wrapping It Up
  • Part II: People Are Different: The Trait Approach
  • Chapter 4: Persons, Situations, and Personality Judgment
  • The Trait Approach
  • People Are Inconsistent
  • The Person-Situation Debate
  • The Accuracy of Personality Judgment
  • Accurate Self-Knowledge
  • Accuracy Matters
  • Wrapping It Up
  • Chapter 5: Traits and Types: The Big Five and Beyond
  • The Single-Trait Approach
  • The Many-Trait Approach
  • The Essential-Trait Approach
  • Typological Approaches to Personality
  • From Assessment to Understanding
  • Wrapping It Up
  • Chapter 6: Personality Stability, Development, and Change
  • Personality Stability
  • Personality Development
  • Personality Change
  • Principles of Personality Continuity and Change
  • Is Personality Change Good or Bad?
  • Wrapping It Up
  • Part III: The Mind and the Body: Biological Approaches to Personality
  • Chapter 7: The Anatomy and Physiology of Personality
  • Hippocrates’ Problem and Ours
  • Basic Structure and Physiology of the Brain
  • Methods for Studying the Brain
  • Brain Physiology
  • The Big Five and the Brain
  • Biology and Psychology
  • Wrapping It Up
  • Chapter 8: Evolution and Genetics: The Inheritance of Personality
  • Evolutionary Personality Psychology
  • Behavioral Genetics
  • Inheritance is the Beginning, Not the End
  • Wrapping It Up
  • Part IV: The Hidden World of the Mind: The Psychoanalytic Approach
  • Chapter 9: Basics of Psychoanalysis
  • Freud Himself
  • Key Ideas of Psychoanalysis
  • Controversy
  • Psychoanalysis, Life, and Death
  • Psychosexual Development: “Follow the Money”
  • Thinking and Consciousness
  • Anxiety and Defense
  • Psychoanalysis as a Therapy and as a Route Toward Understanding
  • Psychoanalytic Theory: A Critique
  • Why Study Freud?
  • Wrapping It Up
  • Chapter 10: Psychoanalysis After Freud: Neo-Freudians, Object Relations, and Current Research
  • Interpreting Freud
  • Latter-Day Issues and Theorists
  • Empirical Psychoanalytic Research
  • Psychoanalysis in Perspective
  • Wrapping It Up
  • Part V: Experience and Awareness: Humanistic and Cross-Cultural Psychology
  • Chapter 11: Humanistic and Positive Psychology
  • Phenomenology: Awareness Is Everything
  • Existentialism
  • Optimistic Humanism: Rogers and Maslow
  • Personal Constructs: Kelly
  • Positive Psychology
  • Humanistic and Positive Psychology in the 21st Century
  • Wrapping It Up
  • Chapter 12: Cultural Variation in Experience, Behavior, and Personality
  • What Is Culture?
  • Culture and Personality
  • The Importance of Cross-Cultural Differences
  • Characteristics of Cultures
  • Cultural Assessment and Personality Assessment
  • The Origins of Cultural Differences
  • Challenges and New Directions for Cross-Cultural Research
  • The Universal Human Condition
  • Wrapping It Up
  • Part VI: What Personality Does: Motivation, Emotion, and the Self
  • Chapter 13: Personality Processes: Learning, Cognition, Motivation, and Emotion
  • Learning
  • Cognitive Theories of Personality
  • Motivation
  • Emotion
  • Happiness
  • Personality as a Verb
  • Wrapping It Up
  • Chapter 14: The Self: What You Know About You
  • The I and the Me
  • The Contents and Purposes of the Self
  • The Declarative Self
  • The Procedural Self
  • The Narrative Self
  • How Many Selves?
  • The Really Real Self
  • Wrapping It Up
  • Part VII: Applications of Personality Psychology
  • Chapter 15: Relationships and Business
  • Love and Relationships
  • Work and Business
  • Personality and Life
  • Wrapping It Up
  • Chapter 16: Mental and Physical Health
  • Personality Disorders
  • The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM)
  • Defining Personality Disorders
  • The Major Personality Disorders
  • Organizing and Diagnosing Disorders with the DSM-5 and Beyond
  • Personality and Disorder
  • Physical Health
  • The Healthy Personality
  • Wrapping It Up
  • Chapter 17: What Have We Learned?
  • Which Approach Is Right?
  • What Have We Learned?
  • The Quest for Understanding
  • Wrapping It Up
  • Credits
  • References
  • Glossary
  • Name Index
  • Subject Index