PSY303 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Kate Mulgrew, Blended Learning, Final Grades
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The course offers a thorough examination of personality theories, including trait, biological, humanistic, social-cognitive, behavioural and psychodynamic approaches. You will be introduced to, and are expected to become familiar with, a variety of methods and tests that are used to measure individual differences in personality and intelligence. Issues relating to the interpretation, reliability and validity of test scores are discussed. Introduction to personality: psychodynamic and psychoanalytic-social theories, trait theories, behavioural theories, social-cognitive theories, humanistic theories, biological theories. Introduction to assessment: norms, reliability, validity, test construction, personality testing, synthesis: personality and assessment. On successful completion of this course you should be able to: Understand and explain theories relating to the study of personality and psychological assessment (including ethical issues). Develop writing skills, including referencing in apa style. You will be assessed on the learning outcome in task/s: Completing these tasks successfully will contribute to you becoming:
