PERSONALITY: A SYSTEMS APPROACH (Edition 1.8) guides students through the contemporary discipline of personality psychology. The book draws on the field's best supported theoretical ideas and its cutting-edge research. Students cover four broad topics: (1) what personality is and how it is studied, (2) personality's major parts-from motives and emotions to mental models and traits, (3) how personality is organized and (4) the ways personality develops. By studying these four topics, students learn about human personality, including their own, and the influence of personality on an...

The Elements of Mental Tests provides an introduction to mental testing and the use of psychological and educational measures.

Part I: The Elements of Measurement introduces the types of educational and psychological tests commonly in use, the test data those measures collect, and the types of test items that make up a test. Part II: The Elements of Test Scores introduces the mathematical models that professionals use to represent test-takersa (TM) answers to test questions. Part II begins with a review of basic statistics particularly relevant to...