| 371 Spring, 2011 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 28 | 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 Revelle, Annual Review 1995 Mischel, Annual Review, 2004 Revelle and Oehlberg (2008) Integrating experimental and observational personality research | Take the Big 5 inventory your scores are anonymous | |||||
| March 30 | Descriptive Taxonomies
Behavioral Taxonomies the "Personality Coefficient" |
Pervin: Personality taxonomies John: The Big 5 | Critique of Big 5 inventory | ||||||
| Week 2 | April 4 | 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 6 | 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 11 | 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)
Revelle, 1993 (Broadbent festschrift) Rogers and Revelle, 1998 Fleeson, 2001, Fleeson, Malanos, Achille, 2002 Canli, et al., (2002) Wilt, Funkhouser & Revelle (in press) | ||||||
| April 13 | Approach: Achievement Motivation classical theory of risk preference (html) (class notes pdf) hierarchical models | Elliot and Thrash (2002) | |||||||
| Week 4 | April 18 | 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 20 | 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 25 | 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 27 | Midterm Study questions | Midterm | |||||||
| Part 2: The Measurement of Personality | |||||||||
| Week 6 | May 2 | Basic issues in measurement
problems of measurement |
review of variance/covariance) | Review old statistics notes | |||||
| May 4 | Fundamentals of reliabilty | reliability notes (pdf) | Research Proposal due | ||||||
| Week 7 | May 9 | Types of reliability and validity | Item construction | ||||||
| May 11 | Scale Construction | choose projects (in class) | |||||||
| Week 8 | May 16 | Factor analysis
scale construction |
Design project | ||||||
| May 18 | Validity and decision making
Pitfalls in Research |
Pitfalls (class notes) | prq analysis | ||||||
| Part 3: Experimental Studies of Personality | |||||||||
| Week 9 | May 23 | validity | |||||||
| May 25 | 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 30 | Reading Week | Using R to analyze personality data | Data analysis (by appointment) | |||||
| June 89- | Papers due, (optional) Final Exam (June 8?) | ||||||||
| Course and Teacher Evaluation (CTEC) | |||||||||