Individual Differences - Colin Cooper

Individual Differences

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Buch | Softcover
368 Seiten
1997
Hodder Arnold (Verlag)
978-0-340-66274-8 (ISBN)
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Designed for psychology students taking courses on personality or individual difference, this text aims to offer an integrated and objective presentation of the field. It covers the psychology of human personality, ability, mood and motivation, and includes exercises in each chapter.
Why, and how, do we differ from one another? Does parenting affect children's abilities and personalitis? Or are they largely genetically determined? If personality and intelligence can be assessed, how exactly do psychometric tests work? And how useful is the information they provide? This text seeks to offer an integrated and objective presentation of this field of psychology, covering human personality, ability, mood and motivation. The author shows how psychological tests can be used to measure individual differences and provides background in psychometric theory (including factor analysis and item-response theory) to enable the reader to understand how tests are constructed, evaluated and used. Specifically designed for psychology students taking a course on personality or individual difference, the text contains self-assessment exercises (and answers) in each chapter.

Part 1 Theories of individual differences: introduction to individual differences; Freud's psychoanalytical theory; an evaluation of Freud's theories; trait theories of personality; biological and social bases of personality; the structure and the measurement of abilities; ability processes; environmental and genetic determinants of personality and ability; mood states and motivational states. Part 2 Assessmetn of individual differences: measuring individual differences; personality through introspection - testing the theories of Kelly and Rogers; the reliability and validity of psychological tests; factor analysis 1; performing and interpreting factor analysis; item response theory; problems with tests; constructing a reliable test; measuring mood and motivation.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 31.10.1997
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Verhaltenstherapie
ISBN-10 0-340-66274-3 / 0340662743
ISBN-13 978-0-340-66274-8 / 9780340662748
Zustand Neuware
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