Introduction to Personality: Toward an Integrative Science of the Person, 8th Edition

This Eighth Edition reflects the new developments within personality psychology, and gives the student a picture of the field as a cumulative, integrative science that builds on its rich past and now allows a much more coherent view of the whole functioning individual in the social world. This revision, subtitled: Toward an Integrative Science of the Person, is committed to making that integration, and its practical applications and personal relevance to everyday life, even more clear and compelling for our students. In this new edition the focus is placed on distilling how findings at each of the six major levels of analysis of personality (traitdisposition, biological, psychodynamicmotivational, behavioralconditioning, phenomenologicalhumanistic, and socialcognitive) still speak to and inform each other, and how they add to the current state of the science and its continuing growth. Content: Introduction -- Orientation to Personality -- Data, Methods, and Tools -- P.1. The Trait-Dispositional Level -- Types and Traits -- The Expressions of Dispositions -- P. 2. The Biological Level -- Heredity and Personality -- Brain, Evolution, and Personality -- P. 3. The Psychodynamic-Motivational Level -- Psychodynamic Theories: Freud's Conceptions -- Psychodynamic Applications and Processes -- Post-Freudian Psychodynamics -- P. 4. The Behavioral-Conditioning Level -- Behavioral Conceptions -- Analyzing and Modifying Behavior -- P. 5. The Phenomenological-Humanistic Level -- Phenomenological-Humanistic Conceptions -- The Internal View -- P. 6. The Social Cognitive Level -- Social Cognitive Conceptions -- Social Cognitive Processes -- P. 7. Integration of Levels: The Person as a Whole -- The Personality System: Integrating the Levels -- Self-Regulation: From Goal Pursuit to Goal Attainment -- Personality in its Social Context and Culture. Reflecting the latest developments, this eighth edition paints a picture of the field as a cumulative, integrative science that builds on its rich past. It provides a much more coherent view of the whole functioning individual in the social world