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Tables of Contents for Personality and Assessment
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
1
13
Personality Constructs
2
3
Traits
5
1
Psychodynamic Assumptions
6
2
Traits, States, and Individual Differences
8
2
Behavior Change
10
3
Consistency and Specificity in Behavior
13
28
Intellectual and Cognitive Variables
14
6
Ability and Achievement
Cognitive Behavior and ``Styles''
The Generality of Categorizing Behavior
Personality Variables
20
16
Attitudes toward Authority and Peers
Moral Behavior
Sexual Indentification, Dependency, and Aggression
Rigidity and Tolerance for Ambiguity
Cognitive Avoidance
Conditionability
Moderator Variables
Temporal Stability
Implications
36
5
Traits and States as Constructs
41
32
The Construction of Behavioral Consistency
42
12
Trait Ratings as Observer's Constructs
Trait Factors as the Researcher's Constructs
Trait-Rating Factors and Semantic Factors
Constructed Consistencies
54
5
Construction Limits
Determinants of Constructed Consistencies
Constructs Constrain Further Observation
Psychometric Assessment of Trait Constructs
59
11
Confusion between Behavior Description and Interpretation
Assessing Behavior and Categories about Behavior
Implications of Traits as Constructs
Summary
70
3
Personality Correlates
73
30
Validity
74
9
Responses Used without Extrapolating from the Sample
Correlations among Response Patterns
Interpreting Personality Correlations
83
18
Response Sets
Method Variance and Multitrait-Multimethod Analyses
Discriminant Validity
Correlations with Intelligence
Trait or Construct Validation
Hazards in the Misuse of Personality Constructs
Construct Validity and Construct Utility
Summary
101
2
Utility
103
46
An Illustrative Psychodynamic Assessment
104
2
Incremental Validity
106
39
Increments over Base Rates and Clinical Stereotypes
Increments over Simple Self-ratings and Self-predictions
Increments from Projective Data
Increments from Clinical Judgment
The Generality of Judgmental Accuracy
Increments from Standard Diagnostic Sources
Psychiatric Diagnosis
Incremental Speed
Clinical Self-confidence
Actuarial Description and Prediction
Increments over Indices of Past Behavior
Utility for Planning Individual Treatment
The Trait-State Approach: Conclusions and Implications
145
4
Principles of Social Behavior
149
44
Acquisition of Behavior
150
11
Observational Learning
Conditioning of Stimulus Valences
Distinction between Acquisition and Performance
Response-Reinforcement Relations
161
7
Direct Response Consequences
Self-administered Response Consequences
Indirect (Vicarious) Response Consequences
Instructions, Rules, and Persuasive Communications
168
4
Generalization and Discrimination
172
4
The Interpretation of Behavioral Specificity and Generality
176
12
The Specificity of Response Consequences
Consistency of Intelligence and Related Skilled Behaviors
Specificity and Consistency in Response Modes
The Specificity of Stimulus Valences and Emotional Behavior
Response Consequences and Performance on Personality Tests
Social Desirability and Response Consequences
Response Sets as Failures in Discrimination
Method Variance or Stimulus Variance
Idiographic People and Nomothetic Antecedent Process
188
2
The Acquired Meaning of Stimuli
Summary
190
3
Behavior Change
193
42
Defining Problematic Behavior
194
7
The Disease View
The Social Behavior View
Modification of Valences
201
13
Modification of Response Patterns
214
19
Extinction
Contingent Reinforcement
Modification of Response Patterns Vicariously and Symbolically
Summary
233
2
Assessment for Behavior Change
235
46
The Measurement of Behavior
236
26
The Subject Is a Trait Theorist
Public Referents for Private Experiences
Direct Sampling
Assessment of Reinforcing Stimuli
Graded Learning Sequences
Clinical versus Actuarial Hierarchies
The Analysis of Causes
262
10
A Key Illustration: Pearson Brack Reanalyzed
The Clinent's Role
The Specificity of Behavior Change
272
7
Summary
279
2
Personality and Prediction
281
22
Stabilities in Behavior
281
7
Environmental Stabilities
Constructed Stabilities
The Patterning of Response Consequences
Bases for Prediction
288
7
Increments from the Measurement of Environments
Increments from Past Behavior
Reasonable and Unreasonable Predictions
The Dynamics of Behavior
295
8
References
303
36
Author Index
339
8
Subject Index
347