Chapter+5

Chapter 5-revision

 Learning outcomes Chapter 5

 Explain the individual differences approach to personality.

 Identify different ways in which theorists have conceptualised and measured personality.

 Explain different ways in which both biology (nature) and the environment (nurture) are understood to influence human behaviour.

 Describe and explain the inductive-hypothetico-deductive spiral using examples of research into personality.

 Explain how the individual differences approach takes an outsider viewpoint on personality that privileges the measurement of behaviour.

 011  Critically evaluate at least two methods that psychologists have used to study  personality, and assess the contribution of these methods towards our  understanding of personality.  2010 ‘ An individual’s personality is largely fixed at birth’. Evaluate the evidence for and  against this claim.  2009  ,Trait theories are only descriptions but do not explain personality'. Discuss.  2008 <span style="font-family: lucida grande,tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;"> Outline how psychologists have researched the extent to which individual <span style="font-family: lucida grande,tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;"> differences in personality are inherited. What conclusions have psychologists <span style="font-family: lucida grande,tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;"> drawn from this research? <span style="font-family: lucida grande,tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;"> 2007 ** <span style="font-family: lucida grande,tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;"> --  ** <span style="font-family: lucida grande,tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;"> 2006 ** <span style="font-family: lucida grande,tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;"> --  **