Personality
Strategies and Issues
8th Edition
Published on 18. December 1997
Book
Hardback
581 pages
978-0-534-26418-5 (ISBN)
Description
This sound, scholarly book continues to organize the diverse content of personality psychology in a meaningful way, taking care to present complex concepts in highly readable, accessible language. Using a single, overarching framework, the authors capture the flavor of each of four important conceptual strategies (psychoanalytic, dispositional, behavioral, and representational) and four fundamental issues (theory, assessment, research, and personality change) underlying contemporary personality psychology.
The presentation of each strategy begins with an overview chapter that describes the strategy's basic assumptions and principles, as well as its respective intellectual school of thought. Then, after a more detailed presentation of the approaches that fall within the strategy, the authors conclude with a single chapter on the strategy's practical applications and limitations.
The presentation of each strategy begins with an overview chapter that describes the strategy's basic assumptions and principles, as well as its respective intellectual school of thought. Then, after a more detailed presentation of the approaches that fall within the strategy, the authors conclude with a single chapter on the strategy's practical applications and limitations.
Reviews / Votes
PART I: INTRODUCTION. 1. Overview. 2. Methods of Personality Research and Assessment. PART II: THE PSYCHOANALYTIC STRATEGY. 3. Introduction to the Psychoanalytic Strategy. 4. Freud's Psychoanalytic Theories. 5. Post-Freudian Perspectives. 6. Applications and Limitations of the Psychoanalytic Strategy. PART III: THE DISPOSITIONAL STRATEGY. 7. Introduction to the Dispositional Strategy. 8. Evolution of the Trait Concept. 9. The Biological Approach. 10. Applications and Limitations of the Dispositional Strategy. PART IV: THE ENVIRONMENTAL STRATEGY. 11. Introduction to the Environmental Strategy. 12. The Behavioral Approach. 13. The Social Learning Approach. 14. Applications and Limitations of the Environmental Strategy. PART V: THE REPRESENTATIONAL STRATEGY. 15. Introduction to the Representational Strategy. 16. The Phenomenological Approach. 17. The Social Cognitive Approach. 18. Applications and Limitations of the Representational Strategy. PART VI: EPILOGUE. 19. Commonalities and Continuing Controversies.More details
Edition
8th edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Belmont, CA
United States
Publishing group
Cengage Learning, Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Weight
1315 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-534-26418-5 (9780534264185)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Previous edition
Book
12/1993
7th Edition
Brooks/Cole
€58.37
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Persons
Ph.D., Stanford University Michael D. Spiegler (Ph.D., clinical psychology, Vanderbilt University, 1969) has been director of the Community Training Center at the Palo Alto VA Hospital, was on the faculty at the University of Texas, Austin, and currently is Professor of Psychology at Providence College.
Content
PART I: INTRODUCTION TO SCIENTIFIC PERSONALITY PSYCHOLOGY. 1. Overview. 2. Methods of Personality Research. PART II: THE PSYCHOANALYTIC STRATEGY. 3. Introduction to the Psychoanalytic Strategy. 4. Freud''s Psychoanalytic Theories. 5. Post-Freudian Perspectives. 6. Applications and Limitations of the Psychoanalytic Strategy. PART III: THE DISPOSITIONAL STRATEGY. 7. Introduction to the Dispositional Strategy. 8. The Biological Approach. 9. Evolution of the Trait Concept. 10. Applications and Limitations of the Dispositional Strategy. PART IV: THE BEHAVIORAL STRATEGY. 11. Introduction to the Behavioral Strategy. 12. The Radical-Behavioral Approach. 13. The Social-Learning Approach. 14. Applications and Limitations of the Behavioral Strategy. PART V: THE REPRESENTATIONAL STRATEGY. 15. Introduction to the Representational Strategy. 16. The Phenomenological Approach. 17. The Cognitive Approach. 18. Applications and Limitations of the Representational Strategy. PART VI: PROSPECTS FOR INTEGRATION. 19. Commonalities and Continuing Controversies.