Module ERPM007Z for 2021/2
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Postgraduate Module Descriptor
ERPM007Z: Personality and Individual Differences
This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 academic year.
Module Content
Syllabus Plan
Whilst the module’s precise content may vary over time, it is envisaged that the syllabus will consider a range of issues that relate to the current and historical study of personality and individual differences, drawing on theory, assessment of personality and empirical research. The syllabus will likely include:
- A general introduction to personality and individual differences
- Psychoanalytic theory
- Personality trait theory
- Personality type theory
- The person-situation debate
- Biological and evolutionary approaches
- Personality and intelligence tests; reliability and validity of such measures
- Behaviourist, social learning and cognitive approaches
- Humanistic approaches
- Intelligence
- Personality disorders
- Individual differences and psychosis
Learning and Teaching
This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | Guided independent study | Placement / study abroad |
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27 | 123 | 0 |
...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:
Category | Hours of study time | Description |
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Scheduled Learning and Teaching | 27 | Engagement online with taught content |
Guided Independent Learning | 27 | Reading (textbooks, journal articles, web resources and lecture slides) in preparation for online taught content |
Guided Independent Learning | 60 | Work on assessments |
Guided Independent Learning | 9 | Collation and review of class materials |
Guided Independent Learning | 27 | Undertaking additional class tasks and activities (e.g. on ELE) and preparing for online taught content. |
Online Resources
This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).
Indicative Reading List
This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.
Indicative basic reading list:
- Burger, J. M. (2019). Personality (10th Ed). Cengage Learning.
- Caspi, A., Roberts, B. W., & Shiner, R. L. (2005). Personality development: Stability and change. Annu. Rev. Psychol., 56, 453-484.
- Deary, I. J. (2020). Intelligence: A very short introduction. Oxford University Press.
- Funder, D. C. (2001). Personality.Annual Review of Psychology, 52, 197-221.
- Funder, D. C. (2019). The Personality Puzzle (8th Ed). W.W. Norton and Company.
- Luborsky, L., & Barrett, M. S. (2006). The History and Empirical Status of key psychoanalytic concepts. Annual Review Clinical Psychology, 2, 1–19.
- Maltby, J., Day, L., & Macaskill, A. (2017). Personality, individual differences and intelligence (4th Ed). Pearson Education.