KEY BENEFIT Perspectives on Personality describes a range of viewpoints that are used by personality psychologists today, and helps readers understand how these viewpoints can be applied to their own lives. Authors Charles Carver and Michael Scheier dedicate a chapter to each major perspective, presenting an overview of the perspective's orienting assumptions and core themes and concluding with a discussion of problems within that theoretical viewpoint and predictions about its future prospects. The Eighth Edition incorporates several important recent developments in the field, including genetics and genomics and the biological underpinnings of impulsiveness. KEY TOPICS What Is Personality Psychology?; Methods in the Study of Personality; Issues in Personality Assessment; The Trait Perspective; The Motive Perspective; Genetics, Evolution, and Personality; Biological Processes and Personality; The Psychoanalytic Perspective; Psychosocial Theories; The Learning Perspective; Self-Actualization and Self-Determination; The Cognitive Perspective; The Self-Regulation Perspective; Personality in Perspective: Overlap and Integration MARKET Readers seeking an overview of personality psychology that focuses on applications of theory
Product details
- Loose-leaf | 320 pages
- 208 x 274 x 10mm | 612g
- 03 Mar 2016
- Pearson Education (US)
- Upper Saddle River, United States
- English
- 8th ed.
- 013441537X
- 9780134415376
- 1,193,837
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