| 371 Spring, 2012 Outline: | ||||
| Week | Date | Substantive Content lecture notes | Reading (for readings on the personality server, use id="psych", pw="psych" for readings at NU library, log in with your net id for some journals, you need to be logged in at NU using a VPN | Requirements |
| Part I: Current Theories of Personality | ||||
| Week 1 | March 26 | Introduction to the course (very large pdf)
3 approaches to personality psychology |
Revelle, Wilt and Condon (2011) Individual differences and differential psychology: A brief history and prospect Mischel, Annual Review, 2004 Revelle and Oehlberg (2008) Integrating experimental and observational personality research | Take the Big 5 inventory your scores are anonymous |
| March 28 | Descriptive Taxonomies
Behavioral Taxonomies the "Personality Coefficient" |
Pervin: Personality taxonomies John: The Big 5 | Critique of Big 5 inventory | |
| Week 2 | April 2 | The ABCD's of Personality Causal Theories of approach and avoidance |
Revelle, 2007 Experimental Techniques in Personality Research
Revelle, Condon and Wilt (2011) Methodological advances in differential psychology | |
| April 4 | Approach: Introversion/extraversion and Impulsivity theories based upon Eysenck and Gray |
Wilt and Revelle Extraversion (2009) Smillie, Pickering and Jackson (2006) The new Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory: Implications for personality measurement. (must be using a NU account) Revelle, Amaral and Turiff (1976) Revelle, Humphreys, Simon and Gilliland (1980) (optional: see Eysenck web page) |
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| Week 3 | April 9 | Alternative approaches to I/E I/E, arousal and performance I/E and positive affect I/E and within and between variability |
Revelle, 1997 (impulsivity)
Rogers and Revelle, 1998 Fleeson, 2001, Fleeson, Malanos, Achille, 2002 Canli, et al., (2002) Wilt, Funkhouser & Revelle (2011) Smillie et al, (in press)) <-- NEW | |
| April 11 | Approach: Achievement Motivation classical theory of risk preference (html) (class notes pdf) hierarchical models | Elliot and Thrash (2002) | ||
| Week 4 | April 16 | Achievement motivation and efficient performance
Dynamic models of motivation |
Revelle, 1986 Atkinson festschrift Revelle, 2009 The Cues Tendency Action (CTA) model Elliot and McGregor (1999) |
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| April 18 | Avoidance: Anxiety Anxiety and performance (pdf) |
Elliot and McGregor (1999)
Wilt, Oehlberg, and Revelle (2011). Anxiety in personality |
Informal preliminary proposal
help in literature searches (select the articles tab) A guide to literature searches and writing an APA style paper Avoid common writing errors | |
| Week 5 | April 23 | Approach and Avoidance: Personality, Motivation, and Performance a theoretical proposal (pdf) |
Atheory of personality, motivation, and cognition: (Revelle (1992)
Personality and changes in affect over time Gilboa & Revelle Personality and affective processing (Rogers and Revelle, 1998) | Proposal requirements and a guide to searching the literature Using Endnote or BibDesk to search the literature Using Latex for writing APA style papers. |
| April 25 | Midterm Study questions | Midterm | ||
| Part 2: The Measurement of Personality | ||||
| Week 6 | April 30 | Basic issues in measurement
problems of measurement |
Methodological advances in differential psychology (Revelle, Condon and Wilt, 2011).
review of variance/covariance |
Review old statistics notes |
| May 2 | Fundamentals of reliabilty | reliability notes (pdf) | Research Proposal due | |
| Week 7 | May 7 | Types of reliability and validity | Item construction | |
| May 9 | Scale Construction | choose projects (in class) | ||
| Week 8 | May 14 | Factor analysis
scale construction |
Design project | |
| May 16 | Validity and decision making
Pitfalls in Research |
Pitfalls (class notes) | prq analysis | |
| Part 3: Experimental Studies of Personality | ||||
| Week 9 | May 21 | validity | ||
| May 23 | Evolutionary perspectives
Personality and behavior genetics Behavior genetics, intelligence, life span studies |
McGue and Bouchard, Annual Review of Neuroscience, 1998
Bouchard, 2004 | ||
| Week 10: | May 28 | Using R to analyze personality data
Using R to score scales |
Data analysis (by appointment) | |
| June 6- | Papers due, (optional) Final Exam (June 6) | |||
| Course and Teacher Evaluation (CTEC) | ||||