Personality and individual differences

1.1 Introduction.

1.2 Personality: A commonsense idea.

1.3 Describing individuals.

1.4 Abnormality.

1.5 Intelligence, competition, and adaptation.

1.6 Predicting success.

1.7 Born different?.

1.8 Other abilities.

1.9 Variability and change: Motivation and mood states.

1.10 Creativity.

1.11 Leading the way.

1.12 Interests.

2 Personality, Part I:.

2.1 Introduction.

2.2 Overview and approaches.

2.3 Definition of personality traits.

2.4 History of personality.

2.5 Personality traits and states: Dispositional vs. situational approaches.

2.6 Eysencks Gigantic Three and the biological basis of personality traits.

2.7 Self report inventories.

2.8 The biological basis of personality.

2.9 Grays personality theory.

2.10 Cattells 16PF and the lexical hypothesis.

2.11 The Five Factor Model (Big Five).

2.12 Summary and conclusions.

Key readings.

3 Personality, Part II: Validating personality traits:.

3.1 Introduction.

3.2 Testing personality theories.

3.2.1 Correlation.

3.2.2 Regression analysis.

3.2.3 Mediation, moderation, and structural equation modeling.

3.3 Personality and social behavior.

3.4 Personality and romantic relationships.

3.5 Personality and performance.

3.5.1 Personality and educational performance.

3.5.2 Personality and job performance.

3.6 Personality and health.

3.7 Personality and happiness.

3.8 Current developments outside the dispositional paradigm.

3.8.1 Psychoanalysis and personality theory.

3.8.2 Behaviorism and personality theory.

3.8.3 Phenomenological personality theories.

3.8.4 Social cognitive theories of personality.

3.8.5 Biological approaches to personality theory.

3.8.6 Behavioral genetics.

3.8.7 Evolutionary and cultural approaches to the study of personality.

3.9 Summary and conclusions.

Key readings.

4 Psychopathology:.

4.1 Introduction.

4.2 Defining abnormality.

4.3 Historical roots of psychopathology.

4.4 Modern approaches to psychopathology.

4.4.1 Psychoanalysis and psychodynamic theories.

4.4.2 Behaviorism.

4.4.3 Cognitive revolution.

4.4.4 Biological approaches.

4.5 Integrative approaches to psychopathology: The biopsychosocial model.

4.6 Diagnosis: Classifying psychological disorders.

4.7 Major psychological disorders.

4.7.1 Schizophrenia.

4.7.2 Affective disorders.

4.7.3 Anxiety disorders and obsessional states.

4.7.4 Eating disorders.

4.8 Criticisms of the diagnostic approach.

4.9 Dimensional view of psychopathology and personality disorders.

4.10 Summary and conclusions.

Key readings.

5 Intelligence, Part I:.

5.1 Introduction.

5.2 Defining intelligence.

5.2.1 Conceptualizing intelligence.

5.3 History of intelligence testing.

5.3.1 Galtons hereditary genius.

5.3.2 J. M. Cattells mental test.

5.3.3 Binet and the origins of IQ testing.

5.3.4 Spearmans g factor of general intellectual ability.

5.3.5 Thurstones "primary" mental abilities.

5.4 Cattells theory of fluid and crystallized intelligence.

5.5 Genetic vs. environmental causes of intelligence.

5.6 Piaget and the developmental theory of cognitive...