Advanced Personality (P02423)

? Credit Points : 10 ? SCQF Level : 11 ? Acronym : PPL-P-GID

The course will provide an advanced understanding of topics in personality and individual differences. Topics covered include the structure of personality, including topics such as dimensionality, higher order factors, and the nature of personality facets. We will critically analyze the causes of differences in well-being, and cognitive and biological/genetic theories of individual difference traits such as extraversion, and neuroticism. The continuity of personality across different species is address, as is the relationship of ability and personality to Axis 1 and Axis II disorders.

Shared with UG Course U03148 Basic Tendencies of Personality.

Venue: S1, 7 George Square

? Keywords : Individual differences, Information processing, Personality, Wellbeing, pharmacology, Epidemiology, Intelligence, Psychiatry, genetics, evolution

Entry Requirements

none

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Psychology, (School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, Schedule I)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : Block 2 only

? Contact Teaching Time : 2 hour(s) per week for 10 weeks

? Other Required Attendance : 2 hour(s) per week for 4 weeks

First Class Information

Date	Start	End	Room	Area	Additional Information
29/10/2007	14:00	16:00	Room S.1, 7 George Square	Central

All of the following classes

Type	Day	Start	End	Area
Tutorial	Monday	14:00	15:50	Central

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course students will be able to:

1. Present a critical appraisal of recent papers in the field.
2. Critically evaluate the assumptions of personality research.
3. Be able to compare competing causal models of personality traits.
4. Discuss evidence for a role played by normal personality in personality disorders.