[Studyguide for the Personality Puzzle by Funder, David C, ISBN 9780393933482 (Cram101 Textbook Outlines)] [Author: Cram101 Textbook Reviews] [March, 2011]

**__The Personality Puzzle__ explores the past, present, and future of the discipline to show students why personality psychology matters.** Organized according to the six main domains of modern personality psychology, David Funder’s market-leading text shows students the field as it exists in the present. By incorporating significant coverage of the great theorists of personality psychology throughout, the book helps students understand how the field developed. And by showcasing the questions driving the research of today, __The Personality Puzzle__ enables students to see the exciting future of the discipline. For the Fifth Edition, every chapter has been updated. A new illustration program supports visual learners with updated versions of the book’s much-loved cartoons and new in-text features to help students visualize and remember concepts. The text covers classic theories of personality as well as all the latest findings, including up-to-date coverage of the biological domain, new material on cross-cultural psychology, and expanded treatment of positive psychology. As always, __The Personality Puzzle__ is a book that students will read, enjoy, and remember, with a writing style that is engaging, distinctive, and humorous. Cover......Page 1 Title Page......Page 7 Copyright......Page 8 Contents......Page 15 Preface......Page 27 1 The Study of the Person......Page 38 Mission: Impossible......Page 41 Competitors or Complements?......Page 42 Distinct Approaches Versus the One Big Theory......Page 44 Advantages as Disadvantages and Vice Versa......Page 45 The Plan of This Book......Page 48 Pigeonholing Versus Appreciation of Individual Differences......Page 50 Summary......Page 51 Think About It......Page 52 PART I: RESEARCH METHODS......Page 54 2 Clues to Personality: The Basic Sources of Data......Page 56 Data Are Clues......Page 58 Four Kinds of Clues......Page 59 No Infallible Indicators of Personality......Page 93 Summary......Page 94 Think About It......Page 95 Suggested Readings......Page 96 3 Personality Psychology as Science: Research Methods......Page 98 Psychology’s Emphasis on Method......Page 99 Scientific Education and Technical Training......Page 101 Quality of Data......Page 102 Research Design......Page 115 Effect Sizes......Page 126 Ethics......Page 136 Tools of Exploration......Page 141 Summary......Page 142 Think About It......Page 143 Suggested Readings......Page 144 PART II: HOW PEOPLE DIFFER: THE TRAIT APPROACH......Page 146 4 Personality Traits, Situations, and Behavior......Page 148 The Measurement of Individual Differences......Page 151 People Are Inconsistent......Page 152 The Person-Situation Debate......Page 154 Personality and Life......Page 168 Persons and Situations......Page 171 People Are Different......Page 177 Summary......Page 178 Think About It......Page 180 Suggested Readings......Page 181 5 Personality Assessment I: Personality Testing and Its Consequences......Page 182 The Nature of Personality Assessment......Page 183 The Business of Testing......Page 185 Personality Tests......Page 186 Purposes of Personality Testing......Page 211 Summary......Page 215 Suggested Reading......Page 216 6 Personality Assessment II: Personality Judgment in Daily Life......Page 218 Consequences of Everyday Judgments of Personality......Page 219 The Accuracy of Personality Judgment......Page 225 Summary......Page 244 Think About It......Page 245 Suggested Reading......Page 246 7 Using Personality Traits to Understand Behavior......Page 248 The Single-Trait Approach......Page 251 The Many-Trait Approach......Page 266 The Essential-Trait Approach......Page 276 Typological Approaches to Personality......Page 289 Personality Development Over the Life Span......Page 293 From Assessment to Understanding......Page 296 Summary......Page 297 Think About It......Page 298 Suggested Readings......Page 299 PART III: THE MIND AND THE BODY: BIOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO PERSONALITY......Page 300 8 The Anatomy and Physiology of Personality......Page 304 The Brain and Personality......Page 307 Biochemistry and Personality......Page 333 Summary......Page 350 Suggested Readings......Page 353 9 The Inheritance of Personality: Behavioral Genetics and Evolutionary Theory......Page 354 Behavioral Genetics......Page 356 Evolutionary Personality Psychology......Page 375 Will Biology Replace Psychology?......Page 389 Putting It All Together: Sexual Orientation......Page 391 Inheritance Is the Beginning, Not the End......Page 394 Summary......Page 395 Suggested Readings......Page 397 PART IV: THE HIDDEN WORLD OF THE MIND: THE PSYCHOANALYTIC APPROACH......Page 400 10 Basics of Psychoanalysis......Page 404 The Key Ideas of Psychoanalysis......Page 405 Controversy......Page 409 Freud Himself......Page 411 Psychoanalysis, Life, and Death......Page 414 Psychological Development: “Follow the Money”......Page 416 Thinking and Consciousness......Page 430 Psychoanalysis as a Therapy and as a Route Toward Understanding......Page 433 Summary......Page 436 Suggested Readings......Page 438 11 The Workings of the Unconscious Mind: Defenses and Slips......Page 440 Anxiety......Page 442 Defense Mechanisms......Page 445 Parapraxes and Humor......Page 458 Psychoanalytic Theory: A Critique......Page 465 Why Study Freud?......Page 468 Summary......Page 470 Suggested Readings......Page 471 12 Psychoanalysis After Freud: Neo-Freudians, Object Relations, and Current Research......Page 472 Interpreting Freud......Page 475 Latter-Day Issues and Theorists......Page 476 Current Psychoanalytic Research......Page 491 Psychoanalysis in Perspective......Page 500 Summary......Page 502 Think About It......Page 503 Suggested Readings......Page 504 PART V: EXPERIENCE AND AWARENESS: HUMANISTIC AND CROSS-CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY......Page 506 13 Experience, Existence, and the Meaning of Life: Humanistic and Positive Psychology......Page 508 Phenomenology: Awareness Is Everything......Page 511 Existentialism......Page 512 Optimistic Humanism: Rogers and Maslow......Page 519 Personal Constructs: Kelly......Page 525 Flow: Csikszentmihalyi......Page 530 Hardiness: Maddi......Page 531 Self-Determination Theory: Deci and Ryan......Page 533 Positive Psychology......Page 534 The Implications of Phenomenology......Page 538 Summary......Page 540 Think About It......Page 542 Suggested Readings......Page 543 14 Cultural Variation in Experience, Behavior, and Personality......Page 544 Culture and Psychology......Page 546 The Importance of Cross-Cultural Differences......Page 548 The Characteristics of Cultures......Page 552 Cultural Assessment and Personality Assessment......Page 562 The Origins of Cultural Differences......Page 571 Challenges and New Directions for Cross-Cultural Research......Page 576 The Universal Human Condition......Page 583 Summary......Page 585 Think About It......Page 587 Suggested Readings......Page 588 PART VI: WHAT PERSONALITY DOES: LEARNING, THINKING, FEELING, AND KNOWING......Page 590 15 Learning to Be a Person: Behaviorism and Social Learning Theories......Page 594 Behaviorism......Page 597 Social Learning Theory......Page 615 The Cognitive-Affective Personality System......Page 630 The Contributions and Limitations of Learning Approaches to Personality......Page 635 Behaviorism and Personality......Page 637 Summary......Page 638 Suggested Readings......Page 639 16 Personality Processes: Perception, Thought, Motivation, and Emotion......Page 642 The Historical Roots of Research Into Personality Processes......Page 643 Perception......Page 645 Thought......Page 652 Motivation......Page 659 Emotion......Page 675 Personality as a Verb......Page 684 Summary......Page 685 Think About It......Page 687 Suggested Readings......Page 688 17 What You Know About You: The Self......Page 690 The Self Across Cultures......Page 692 The Contents of the Self......Page 696 The Declarative Self......Page 698 The Procedural Self......Page 714 How Many Selves?......Page 721 The Really Real Self......Page 723 Summary......Page 724 Suggested Reading......Page 726 18 Disorders of Personality......Page 728 The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual......Page 730 Defining Personality Disorders......Page 733 The Major Personality Disorders......Page 735 Diagnosis and the Prototype Model......Page 757 Bases for Diagnosis......Page 759 Organizing the Personality Disorders......Page 762 Personality and Disorder......Page 765 Summary......Page 771 Think About It......Page 772 Suggested Readings......Page 773 19 Conclusion: Looking Back and Looking Ahead......Page 776 The Different Approaches......Page 778 What Have We Learned?......Page 784 Summary......Page 791 Suggested Readings......Page 792 Credits......Page 795 References......Page 801 Glossary......Page 853 Name Index......Page 863 Subject Index......Page 877

The Personality Puzzle explores the past, present, and future of the discipline to show students why personality psychology matters.

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In this update of the 1997 "personality text with a personality," Funder (psychology, U. of California, Riverside) shows psychology students that personality psychology is exciting and relevant to everyday life. He covers the mainstay theories (now with a greater emphasis on cognitive approaches rather than psychoanalysis), intellectual influences, and current research/debates in such areas as neuropsychology, cross-cultural issues, personality types, and null- hypothesis significance testing. Includes a glossary of terms. Funder is the editor of the . Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)