Personality

Organized around the personality systems framework, this text offers students a clear and engaging introduction to the study of personality. The second edition integrates cutting-edge research and provides a comprehensive road map toward understanding (1) what personality is; (2) what personality's major subsystems are by breaking down motivation, emotion, cognition, and self; (3) how personality's parts are organized; and (4) how personality develops and changes over time.
New and Updated Features:
Engaging case examples throughout each chapter bring concepts to life.Valuable study aids, including chapter-opening big picture questions, review questions, and glossary reinforce each chapter's main topics.A fresh design incorporates new figures and tables.A new learning package designed to enhance the experience of both instructors and students includes a test bank, a Respondus test bank, and a companion website.
This book is accompanied by a learning package designed to enhance the experience of both instructors and students.
Test Bank. For every chapter in the text, the Test Bank includes multiple choice questions in a variety of skill levels and organized by chapter topic. The Test Bank is available to adopters in Word, PDF or Respondus formats.
Our Test Bank is most flexibly used in Respondus, test authoring software which is available in two forms. Check with your university to see if you have a site license to the full program, Respondus 4.0, which offers the option to upload your tests to any of the most popular course management systems such as Blackboard. If you don't have a Respondus license or do not care about having your tests in a course management system, you can use our test bank file in Respondus LE. The LE program is free and can be used to automate the process of creating tests in print format.
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John D. Mayer is professor of psychology at the University of New Hampshire. He has authored more than 130 articles, chapters, books, and psychological tests, including Personal Intelligence: The Power of Personality and How It Shapes Our Lives and the internationally known Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test (MSCEIT)

Part 1: Examining Personality
Chapter 1: What Is Personality?
Chapter 2: Research in Personality Psychology
Chapter 3: Perspectives on Personality
Part 2: Parts of Personality
Chapter 4: Motivation and Emotion
Chapter 5: Interior Selves; Interior Worlds
Chapter 6: Mental Abilities and Navigating the World
Chapter 7: The Conscious Self
Part 3: Personality Organization
Chapter 8: How the Parts of Personality Fit Together
Chapter 9: Dynamics of Action
Chapter 10: Dynamics of Self-Control
Part 4: Personality Development
Chapter 11: Personality Development in Childhood and Adolescence
Chapter 12: Personality Development in Adulthood