| 301 Spring, 2003 Outline: | ||||
| Week | Date | Substantive Content | Reading id="psych", pw="psych" | Requirements |
| Part I: Current Theories of Personality | ||||
| Week 1 see also as htmlor pdfor ppt: | March 31 | Introduction 3 approaches to psychology | Revelle, Annual Review 1995 | |
| April 2 | Descriptive Taxonomies Behavioral Taxonomies | Pervin: Personality taxonomies John: The Big 5 |
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| Week 2: | Causal Theories of approach and avoidance | |||
| April 7 | Approach: Introversion/extraversion and Eysenck | (optional: see Eysenck web page | ||
| April 9 | Alternative approaches to I/E | Revelle (impulsivity) Revelle (Broadbent) Revelle, Humphreys, Simon and Gilliland (1980) Rogers and Revelle, 1998 | ||
| Week 3 | April 14 | Approach: Achievement Motivation classical theory of risk preference hierarchical models | Elliot and Thrash (2002) | |
| April 16 | Achievement motivation and efficient performance
Dynamic models of motivation | Atkinson festschrift | Informal preliminary proposal
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| Week 4 | April 21 | Avoidance: Anxiety Anxiety and performance | Elliot and McGregor (1999) | |
| April 23 | Approach and Avoidance: Personality, Motivation, and Performance | Revelle (Broadbent) Gilboa further thoughts on personality dynamicsand a simulation | ||
| Part 2: The Measurement of Personality | ||||
| Week 5 | April 28 | Basic issues in measurement
problems of measurement | review of variance/covariance) | |
| April 30 | Fundamentals of reliabilty | reliability notes (pdf) | Review/ | |
| Week 6 | May 5 | Research Proposal due | ||
| May 7 | Types of reliability and validity | Item construction choose projects | ||
| Week 7 | May 12 | Scale Construction | Midterm | |
| May 14 | Factor analysis (updated) | Design project Scale administration | ||
| Week 8 | May 19 | Validity and decision making | Scale analysis | |
| May 21 | Validity
Pitfalls in Research | Pitfalls (pdf) | ||
| Part 3: Experimental Studies of Personality | ||||
| Week 9 | May 28 | Evolutionary perspectives Personality and behavior genetics | Buss (reserve) Plomin |
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| May 28 | cognitive and self theories | Cantor, Higgins | Review and discussion of projects | |
| Week 10: | June 4 | Review | Data analysis | |
| Week 11 | June 10 | Papers due, Final Exam (June 12) | ||