| C01 Fall, 1997 Outline: | ||||
| Week | Date | Substantive Content | Reading | Requirements |
| Part I: Current Theories of Personality | ||||
| Week 1: | September 22 | Introduction 3 approaches to psychology | Revelle, Annual Review 1995 | |
| September 24 | Descriptive Taxonomies Behavioral Taxonomies | Pervin: Personality taxonomies John: The Big 5 |
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| Week 2: | Causal Theories of approach and avoidance | |||
| Sept. 29 | Approach: Introversion/extraversion | Eysenck | ||
| Oct 1 | Alternative approaches to I/E | Revelle (handout) | ||
| Week 3 | Oct 6 | Achievement Motivation | McClelland | |
| Oct 8 | Achievement motivation and efficient performance
Dynamic models of motivation | Atkinson (handout) | Informal preliminary proposal | |
| Week 4 | Oct 13 | Avoidance: Anxiety Anxiety and performance | Mueller (handout) | |
| Oct 15 | Approach and Avoidance: Personality, Motivation, and Performance | Revelle (handout) | ||
| Part 2: The Measurement of Personality | ||||
| Week 5 | Oct 20 | Basic issues in measurement | Rorer | Research Proposal due |
| Oct 22 | Fundamentals of reliabilty | Handouts on measurement | Review/choose projects | |
| Week 6 | Oct 27 | Midterm | ||
| Oct 29 | Types of reliability | Item construction | ||
| Week 7 | Nov 3 | Scale Construction | Design project | |
| Nov 5 | Factor analysis | Scale administration | ||
| Week 8 | Nov 10 | Validity and decision making | Scale analysis | |
| Nov 12 | Validity
Pitfalls in Research | |||
| Part 3: Experimental Studies of Personality | ||||
| Week 9 | Nov 17 | Evolutionary perspectives Personality and behavior genetics | Buss (reserve) Plomin |
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| Nov 19 | cognitive and self theories | Cantor, Higgins | Review and discussion of projects | |
| Week 10: | Nov 24 | Review | Data analysis | |
| Nov 26 | Oral reports | Data analysis | ||
| Week 11 | Dec 8 | Papers due, Final Exam | ||