did-you-know? rent-now

Amazon no longer offers textbook rentals. We do!

did-you-know? rent-now

Amazon no longer offers textbook rentals. We do!

We're the #1 textbook rental company. Let us show you why.

9780471716990

The Person: A New Introduction to Personality Psychology, 4th Edition

by
  • ISBN13:

    9780471716990

  • ISBN10:

    0471716995

  • Edition: 4th
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2005-05-01
  • Publisher: WILEY

Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.

Purchase Benefits

  • Free Shipping Icon Free Shipping On Orders Over $35!
    Your order must be $35 or more to qualify for free economy shipping. Bulk sales, PO's, Marketplace items, eBooks and apparel do not qualify for this offer.
  • eCampus.com Logo Get Rewarded for Ordering Your Textbooks! Enroll Now
  • Write a Review Icon Write a Review
List Price: $123.55 Save up to $30.89
  • Buy Used
    $92.66
    Add to Cart Free Shipping Icon Free Shipping

    USUALLY SHIPS IN 2-4 BUSINESS DAYS

Supplemental Materials

What is included with this book?

Summary

When you want to truly get to know a person, dates and facts about their life will only tell you so much. You need to look at the stories that define that person's life, as well as their individual traits and characteristics, as defined by human nature and culture.

Table of Contents

Part I:  The Background: Persons, Human Nature, and Culture
Chapter 1: Studying the Person
Chapter 2: Evolution and Nature
Chapter 3: Social Learning and Nature
Part II: Sketching the Outline: Dispositional Traits and the Prediction of Behavior
Chapter 4: Personality Traits: Fundamental Concepts and Issues
Chapter 5: Five Basic Traits
Chapter 6: Traits Across the Lifespan: Continity and Change
Part III: Filling in the Details: Characteristc Adaptations to Life Tasks
Chapter 7: Motives and Goals: What Do We Want in Life?
Chapter 8: Self and Others: Social - Cognitive Aspects of Personality
Chapter 9: Developmental Stages and Tasks
Part IV: Making a Life: The Stories We Live By
Chapter 10: Life Scripts, Life Stories
Chapter 11: Interpreting People's Stories: From Freud to Feminism
Chapter 12: Writing Stories of Lives: Biography and the Life Course
Summary
Glossary
References

Supplemental Materials

What is included with this book?

The New copy of this book will include any supplemental materials advertised. Please check the title of the book to determine if it should include any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.

The Used, Rental and eBook copies of this book are not guaranteed to include any supplemental materials. Typically, only the book itself is included. This is true even if the title states it includes any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.

Rewards Program