Test Yourself: Personality and Individual Differences: Learning through assessment (Test Yourself ... Psychology Series) - Softcover

Penney Upton; Dominic Upton

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0857256610 ISBN 13: 9780857256614

Publisher: Learning Matters, 2011

Synopsis

Test Yourself: Personality and Individual Differences provides essential learning and practice through assessment for your psychology students. It enables year 1 and 2 undergraduates to assess their confidence and competence and prepare for the questions featured in their formal university assessments.

The book includes over 200 multiple-choice and extended multiple-choice questions, carefully designed to assess depth of knowledge. At the end of each chapter sample essay questions are provided, along with further guidance, to complement the multiple-choice questions and further test understanding. In addition, information is provided to help students make sense of their results and identify strengths and weaknesses.

About this title

About the Authors

Penney Upton is a senior lecturer and course leader for psychology at the University of Worcester. Her subject specialism is developmental psychology, which she teaches at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. She has experience of writing for edited books and as a reviewer for psychology textbooks.

Professor Dominic Upton is Head of Psychological Sciences and Chair of Health Psychology at the University of Worcester. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society and was recently awarded a National Teaching Fellowship. His specialist interests are in the learning and teaching of psychology. He has published widely both on this topic and on studies relating to more specific issues in health psychology.

Edition details

• Publisher: Learning Matters
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0857256610
• ISBN 13: 9780857256614
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 128