| 301 Spring, 2008 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 | Requirements |
| Part I: Current Theories of Personality | ||||
| Week 1 | March 31 | Introduction to the course (very large pdf)
3 approaches to personality psychology |
Revelle, Annual Review 1995
Mischel, Annual Review, 2004 Revelle and Oehlberg | Take the Big 5 inventory your scores are anonymous |
| April 2 | Descriptive Taxonomies
Behavioral Taxonomies the "Personality Coefficient" |
Pervin: Personality taxonomies John: The Big 5 |
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| Week 2 : | April 7 | The ABCD's of Personality Causal Theories of approach and avoidance |
Experimental Techniques in Personality Research | |
| April 9 | Approach: Introversion/extraversion and Impulsivity theories based upon Eysenck and Gray |
Wilt and Revelle Extraversion (in press?) Smillie, Pickering and Jackson (2006) The new Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory: Implications for personality measurement. Revelle, Amaral and Turiff (1976) Revelle, Humphreys, Simon and Gilliland (1980) (optional: see Eysenck web page) |
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| Week 3 | April 14 | 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) Rogers and Revelle, 1998 Fleeson, 2001, Fleeson, Malanos, Achille, 2002 Canli, et al., (2002) | |
| April 16 | Approach: Achievement Motivation classical theory of risk preference (html) (class notes pdf) hierarchical models | Elliot and Thrash (2002) | ||
| Week 4 | April 21 | Achievement motivation and efficient performance
Dynamic models of motivation |
Revelle, 1986 Atkinson festschrift
Elliot and McGregor (1999) |
Informal preliminary proposal
help in literature searches Avoid common writing errors |
| April 23 | Avoidance: Anxiety Anxiety and performance (pdf) |
Elliot and McGregor (1999) | ||
| Week 5 | April 28 | 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) further thoughts on personality dynamics and a simulation | Proposal requirements and a guide to searching the literature |
| April 30 | Midterm |
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| Part 2: The Measurement of Personality | ||||
| Week 6 | May 5 | Basic issues in measurement
problems of measurement |
review of variance/covariance) | Review old statistics notes |
| May 7 | Fundamentals of reliabilty | reliability notes (pdf) | Research Proposal due | |
| Week 7 | May 12 | Types of reliability and validity | Item construction | |
| May 14 | Scale Construction | choose projects (in class) | ||
| Week 8 | May 19 | Factor analysis
scale construction |
Design project | |
| May 21 | Validity and decision making | prq analysis | ||
| Part 3: Experimental Studies of Personality | ||||
| Week 9 | May 26 | Validity
Pitfalls in Research |
Pitfalls (pdf) | |
| May 28 | Evolutionary perspectives
Personality and behavior genetics Behavior genetics, intelligence, life span studies |
McGue and Bouchard, Annual Review of Neuroscience, 1998
Bouchard, 2004 | ||
| Week 10: | June 1 | Reading Week | Using R to analyze personality data | Data analysis (by appointment) |
| Week 11 | June 11/td> | Papers due, (optional) Final Exam (June 11) | ||
| Course and Teacher Evaluation (CTEC) | ||||