Introduction to personality : toward an integrative science of the person / Walter Mischel, Yuichi Shoda, Ozlem Ayduk.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mischel, Walter.

Contributor:

Shoda, Yuichi.

Ayduk, Ozlem

John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Personality.

Medical Subjects:

Personality.

Physical Description:

xxii, 570 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm

Edition:

Eighth edition.

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, [2008]

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 508-547) and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Mischel, Walter. Introduction to personality.

ISBN:

9780470087657

047008765X

OCLC:

176649055

Online:

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