Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-359) and index.
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Personality Profiles; Copyright; Contents at a Glance; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Part 1 What Is Personality?; Chapter 1 The Personality Puzzle; What Is Personality, and Why?; Pieces of the Puzzle; Theories of Personality; Testing, Testing: Psychological Tests; Personality: A Work in Progress; Personality and Relationship Issues; How Personality Affects Your Career; Changing Your Personality; Check Yourself Out; Chapter 2 You Are What You Believe; The Cognitive/Constructivist Theory; The Social Learning Theory; Early Messages.
Chapter 7 The Development of Psychological TestsWhose Idea Was This, Anyway?; What Are Psychological Tests For?; Consistent, Reliable Results-Are They Possible?; Do Tests Measure What They're Supposed To?; Low-Tech Tests, High-Tech World; Inkblots and Other Projective Tests; Check Yourself Out; Chapter 8 For Professional Use Only; Professional Tests-A Notch Above the Rest; How Professionals Give Psychological Tests; Why Only Pros Have Access to Some Tests; What the Pros Can-And Can't-Learn from Psychological Testing; Widely Used Psychological Tests; Check Yourself Out.
Chapter 9 Tests for Everyone to TakeWhere to Find Psychological Tests; Popular Versus Professional Tests; Some Benefits of Nonprofessional Tests; Tips for Taking Psychological Tests; Some Warnings About Nonprofessional Tests; Check Yourself Out; Part 3 Personality Characteristics; Chapter 10 Personality Traits; What Personality Traits Say About Who We Are; Explanations of Personality Traits; Personality Trait Theories; Personality Profiles; Tests Used in Profiling; One from Column A ... ; Check Yourself Out; Chapter 11 Schemas and So Forth; What Is a Schema?; What Are Schemas Used For?
Check Yourself OutChapter 5 The Humanistic Theory of Personality; What It Is and How It Works; Recognizing the Value and Dignity of Every Person; Emphasizing Individual Freedoms; The "Here and Now" Factor; Self-Actualization: Where It's At; The Role of Meaning in Personal Development; Current Views of the Humanistic Theory; Check Yourself Out; Chapter 6 Other Personality Theories; Neo-Freudian, or Social Theories; Alfred Adler; Harry Stack Sullivan; Karen Horney; Development Theorists and Theories; Understanding Biological Influences; Check Yourself Out; Part 2 Tests, Tests, and More Tests.
Reinforcement of Early MessagesGetting to the Core of the Matter; Your Brain on Cruise Control; What's That Supposed to Mean?; Check Yourself Out; Chapter 3 The Psychodynamic (Huh?) Theory of Personality; What Is This Theory, and What Does It Mean?; The Importance of the Unconscious Mind; Id, Ego, and Superego; The Five Stages of Development; A Guy Named Freud and His Followers; Check Yourself Out; Chapter 4 The Learning Theory of Personality; What It Is and How It Works; Learning Theory Big Shots: John B. Watson and His Followers; The Role of Reinforcing Behavior; Focus on Research.