The Rough Guide to Psychology An Introduction to Human Behaviour and the Mind (Rough Guides)

NATURE–NURTURE The fact that identical twins aren’t identical in every respect tells us that genes aren’t the whole story. By co ...

THE ROUGH GUIDE TO PSYCHOLOGY their influence is far more modest. So whereas research had shown that, say, conscientious parents ...

NATURE–NURTURE whereas later siblings have to share or perhaps even go without. But it’s not all bad news for younger siblings. ...

Personality This chapter will focus on psychology’s attempts to categorize and understand people according to pervasive differen ...

PERSONALITY Personality categories Somewhat trickier than establishing the consistency and predictive power of personality has b ...

Neuroticism is the flip side of extraversion and describes a person’s sensitivity to negative emotion. High scorers are hesitant ...

PERSONALITY Openness is probably the least well-defined and understood of the Big Five traits. High scorers on this dimension te ...

THE ROUGH GUIDE TO PSYCHOLOGY to explore the extremes of personality, many people will of course score moderately on one or more ...

PERSONALITY in bed, eyes closed, with a man standing nearby, hand over his face. A male respondent who told a story in which the ...

THE ROUGH GUIDE TO PSYCHOLOGY READING PERSONALITY IN THE EYES, FACE AND FINGERS A popular method for discerning personality in A ...

PERSONALITY brown eyes are perceived as more dominant than their blue-eyed coun- terparts. Larsson thinks the basis of the assoc ...

THE ROUGH GUIDE TO PSYCHOLOGY Black, Jane and many others. According to her psychiatrists, these other personalities emerged as ...

PERSONALITY and claimed that “one minute I’d be one person and the next minute I’d be somebody else.” She believed that her firs ...

The subject of human intelligence and how to measure it has a dark history and remains one of the most controversial areas in ps ...

INTELLIGENCE Still more evidence that there really is such a thing as intelligence comes from the fact that people’s performance ...

THE ROUGH GUIDE TO PSYCHOLOGY HOW MANY KINDS OF INTELLIGENCE ARE THERE? There’s general agreement that intelligence can be broke ...

INTELLIGENCE intelligence: verbal, logical, spatial, musical, body-kinetic, interper- sonal and intrapersonal. Gardner’s compatr ...

THE ROUGH GUIDE TO PSYCHOLOGY Modern intelligence tests give the test-taker a standardized score, known as their intelligence qu ...

INTELLIGENCE extremely low or “mentally retarded” (although this term is quickly falling out of favour). Intelligence testing re ...

THE ROUGH GUIDE TO PSYCHOLOGY A brief history of intelligence testing It all started with the Victorian adventurer and polymath ...