Summary
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Personality Theories: Critical Perspectives is the groundbreaking, final text written by Albert Ellis, long considered the founder of cognitive behavioral therapies. The book provides students with supporting and contradictory evidence for the development of personality theories through time. Without condemning the founding theorists who came before him, Ellis builds on more than a century of psychological research to re-examine the theories of Freud, Jung, and Adler while taking an equally critical look at modern, research-based theories, including his own.
Personality and Traits
Personality and Traits
Chapter Goals
- Explain the meaning and origin of the trait in personality theory
- Discuss how the trait approach to psychology both complements and competes with other perspectives
- Review the methods by which traits are discovered and tested
- Compare the leading trait models of personality
- Examine the biological and evolutionary basis of traits
Atrait in personality psychology can be generally ...
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