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Test Yourself: Personality and Individual Differences
Learning through assessment
Edited by:
- Penney Upton - University of Worcester, UK
- Dominic Upton - University of Worcester, UK
September 2011 | 128 pages | Learning Matters
Test Yourself: Personality and Individual Differences provides essential learning and practice through assessment for your psychology students. It enables year 1 and 2 undergraduates to assess their confidence and competence and prepare for the questions featured in their formal university assessments.
The book includes over 200 multiple-choice and extended multiple-choice questions, carefully designed to assess depth of knowledge. At the end of each chapter sample essay questions are provided, along with further guidance, to complement the multiple-choice questions and further test understanding. In addition, information is provided to help students make sense of their results and identify strengths and weaknesses.
Introduction
Assessing Your Interest, Competence and Confidence
Tips for Success: How to Succeed in Your Assessments
Individual Differences Psychology: An Introduction
Personality: Evolutionary, Physiological and Trait Approaches
Genetics and Environment: A View of Individuality and Uniqueness
Personality: A Reflection of Physical Health
Intelligence and Individual Differences
Personality Development Across the Lifespan
Human Motivation and Variation
Deviations: Personality Traits, Mental Health and Disorder
Moving Forward: Individual Differences Psychology
Writing an Essay: A Format for Success
Scoring Methods in MCQs
MCQ Answers
A bit limited for counselling students
Division of Psychology and Counselling, Huddersfield University
June 27, 2012
This is a good book that provided additional resources to test the students. It would be fantastic to have an additional section before each chapter as a revision guild. Good book though
Psychology , Grimsby Institute of Further and Higher Education
April 7, 2012
