MONASH UNIVERSITY FACULTY HANDBOOKS

Arts Undergraduate Handbook 1996

Published by Monash University

Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia

Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996

APY2020

Psychology - personality and interpersonal behaviour

Peter Macris

8 points + Three 1-hour lectures, one 2-hour workshop per week + Second semester + Caulfield/Peninsula + Prerequisites: APY2010

Synopsis Personality: A comparative study of the theories of Adler, Jung, Eysenck, Kelly, 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. An introduction to SPSS.

Assessment Examinations 60% + Two laboratory reports: 30% + Seminar presentation: 10%

Prescribed texts

Hall C S and Lindzey G Introduction to theories of personality Wiley, 1985
McKnight J and Sutton J Social psychology Prentice-Hall, 1994
Schweigert W A Research methods and statistics for psychology Brooks-Cole, 1994

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