Test Yourself: Personality and Individual Differences provides essential learning and practice through assessment for your psychology students. It enables year 1 and 2 undergraduates to assess their confidence and competence and prepare for the questions featured in their formal university assessments.
The book includes over 200 multiple-choice and extended multiple-choice questions, carefully designed to assess depth of knowledge. At the end of each chapter sample essay questions are provided, along with further guidance, to complement the multiple-choice questions and further test understanding. In addition, information is provided to help students make sense of their results and identify strengths and weaknesses.
Table of Content
Introduction
Assessing Your Interest, Competence and Confidence
Tips for Success: How to Succeed in Your Assessments
Individual Differences Psychology: An Introduction
Personality: Evolutionary, Physiological and Trait Approaches
Genetics and Environment: A View of Individuality and Uniqueness
Personality: A Reflection of Physical Health
Intelligence and Individual Differences
Personality Development Across the Lifespan
Human Motivation and Variation
Deviations: Personality Traits, Mental Health and Disorder
Moving Forward: Individual Differences Psychology
Writing an Essay: A Format for Success
Scoring Methods in MCQs
MCQ Answers
About the author
Professor Dominic Upton is Head of Psychological Sciences and Chair of Health Psychology at the University of Worcester. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society and was recently awarded a National Teaching Fellowship. His specialist interests are in the learning and teaching of psychology. He has published widely both on this topic and on studies relating to more specific issues in health psychology.
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