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Personality Theories Development, Growth, and Diversity

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ISBN-10: 0205340504

ISBN-13: 9780205340507

Edition: 4th 2003

Authors: Bem P. Allen

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Organized by individual theorists, this comprehensive text examines the major movements in the field through an historic and humanistic approach. Allen begins each chapter with teaser questions that help frame the chapter that the student is about to read. The questions are answered in the body of the chapter and are later reinforced through the use of summary points and essay/critical thinking questions at the end of each chapter, which aid in the continuation of a discussion about the content. In addition, Allen provides a tabular format: a running comparison between the major theorists that allows students to analyze new theories with respect to theories learned in previous chapters.…    
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Book details

List price: $103.00
Edition: 4th
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/3/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 533
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 2.090
Language: English

Preface
Introduction
Preliminary Definition of Personality
Methods of Studying Personality
Personality Tests: Personologists' Tools
Testing and Theorizing about Personality in a World of Human Diversity
A Final Word about "Science"
Chapter Sections
Occasional Sections
Conclusions Section
E-mail Interaction Section
Summary Points
Essay/Critical Thinking Questions
E-mail Interaction
The Psychoanalytic Legacy: Sigmund Freud
Freud, the Person
Freud's View of the Person
Basic Concepts: Freud
Evaluation
Conclusions
Summary Points
Essay/Critical Thinking Questions
E-mail Interaction
Personality's Ancestral Foundation: Carl Jung
Jung, the Person
Jung's View of the Person
Basic Concepts: Jung
Evaluation
Conclusions
Summary Points
Running Comparison
Essay/Critical Thinking Questions
E-mail Interaction
Overcoming Inferiority and Striving for Superiority: Alfred Adler
Adler, the Person
Adler's View of the Person
Basic Concepts: Adler
Evaluation
Conclusions
Summary Points
Running Comparison
Essay/Critical Thinking Questions
E-mail Interaction
Moving toward, away from, and against Others: Karen Horney
Horney, the Person
Horney's View of the Person
Basic Concepts: Horney
Evaluation
Conclusions
Summary Points
Running Comparison
Essay/Critical Thinking Questions
E-mail Interaction
Personality from the Interpersonal Perspective: Harry Stack Sullivan
Sullivan, the Person
Sullivan's View of the Person
Basic Concepts: Sullivan
Evaluation
Conclusions
Summary Points
Running Comparison
Essay/Critical Thinking Questions
E-mail Interaction
The Seasons of Our Lives: Erik Erikson
Erikson, the Person
Erikson's View of the Person
Basic Concepts: Erikson
Theoretical and Empirical Support for Erikson's Point of View
Conclusions
Summary Points
Running Comparison
Essay/Critical Thinking Questions
E-mail Interaction
The Sociopsychological Approach to Personality: Erich Fromm
Fromm, the Person
Fromm's View of the Person
Basic Concepts: Fromm
Evaluation
Conclusions
Summary Points
Running Comparison
Essay/Critical Thinking Questions
E-mail Interaction
Every Person Is to Be Prized: Carl Rogers
Rogers, the Person
Rogers's View of the Person
Basic Concepts: Rogers
Evaluation
Conclusions
Summary Points
Running Comparison
Essay/Critical Thinking Questions
E-mail Interaction
Becoming All that One Can Be: Abraham Maslow
Maslow, the Person
Maslow's View of the Person
Basic Concepts: Maslow
Evaluation
Conclusions
Summary Points
Running Comparison
Essay/Critical Thinking Questions
E-mail Interaction
Marching to a Different Drummer: George Kelly
Kelly, the Person
Kelly's View of the Person
Basic Concepts: Kelly
Personality Development
Evaluation
Conclusions
Summary Points
Running Comparison
Essay/Critical Thinking Questions
E-mail Interaction
The Social-Cognitive Approach to Personality: Walter Mischel and Julian Rotter
Mischel: A Challenge to Traits
Mischel, the Person
Mischel's View of the Person
Basic Concepts: Mischel
Evaluation
Conclusions
Rotter: Internal versus External Control of Our Behavior
Rotter, the Person
Rotter's View of the Person
Basic Concepts: Rotter
Evaluation
Conclusions
Summary Points
Running Comparison
Essay/Critical Thinking Questions
E-mail Interaction
Thinking Ahead and Learning Mastery of One's Circumstances: Albert Bandura
Bandura, the Person
Bandura's View of the Person
Basic Concepts: Bandura
Evaluation
Conclusions
Summary Points
Running Comparison
Essay/Critical Thinking Questions
E-mail Interaction
It's All a Matter of Consequences: B. F. Skinner
Skinner, the Person
Skinner's View of the Person
Basic Concepts: Skinner
Evaluation
Conclusions
Summary Points
Running Comparison
Essay/Critical Thinking Questions
E-mail Interaction
Human Needs and Environmental Press: Henry A. Murray
Murray, the Person
Murray's View of the Person
Basic Concepts: Murray
Evaluation
Conclusions
Summary Points
Running Comparison
Essay/Critical Thinking Questions
E-mail Interaction
The Trait Approach to Personality: Raymond Cattell and Hans Eysenck
Cattell, the Person
Cattell's View of the Person
Basic Concepts: Cattell
Evaluation
Conclusions
Eysenck: 16 = 3--Conceiving of Personality in Three Dimensions
Eysenck, the Person
Eysenck's View of the Person
Basic Concepts and Contributions: Eysenck
Eysenck's Last Word
Limitations
Conclusions
Summary Points
Running Comparison
Essay/Critical Thinking Questions
E-mail Interaction
Personality Development and Prejudice: Gordon Allport
Allport, the Person
Allport's View of the Person
Basic Concepts: Allport
Personality Development
Personality and Prejudice
Evaluation
Conclusions
Summary Points
Running Comparison
Essay/Critical Thinking Questions
E-mail Interaction
Where Is Personality Going?
Glossary
References
Names Index
Subject Index