Psychology - personality and interpersonal behaviour
Mr Peter Macris
8 points * 3 x 1-hour lectures, 1 x 2-hour workshop per week * Second semester * Caulfield/Peninsula * Prerequisites: APY2010
Personality - comparative study of the following theories: Sheldon, Freud, Jung, Eysenck, Kelly, Cattell, Maslow, Rogers. Interpersonal behaviour: small group formation, leadership and performance. Attitude formation and change. Person perception. Attribution theory. Aggression and assertive behaviour. Organisational behaviour. Research design and analysis. The nature of measurement, meta analysis, single subject designs, experimental research designs, survey sampling, random and stratified sampling, cluster and two-stage sampling.
Assessment
Examinations (5 hours): 60% * 2 laboratory reports: 30% * Seminar presentation: 10%
Prescribed texts
Graziano A and Raulin M Research methods: A process of inquiry Harper and Row, 1989
Hall C S and Lindzey G Introduction to theories of personality Wiley, 1985
Sears D O and others Social psychology 6th edn, Prentice-Hall, 1988