Identify, define, and distinguish the three mechanisms of social interaction.
Define assortative mating and discuss for personality as an example of the mechanism of selection.
Address whether people get what they want in mates, and whether this has any impact on marital satisfaction and the likelihood of divorce.
Discuss how shyness affects selection into, or selective avoidance of, certain situations, as an example of the mechanisms of selection.
Discuss work on the relationships between personality characteristics other than shyness and the selective entry into, or avoidance of situations.
Discuss aggression and the evocation of hostility as an example of the mechanism of evocation.
Discuss the evocation of upset in partners as an example of the mechanism of evocation.
Discuss evocation through expectancy confirmation.
Identify two key questions that personality psychologists might ask about the process of manipulation.
Discuss the identification of 11 tactics of manipulation.
Discuss sex differences and similarities in tactics of manipulation.
Discuss personality predictors of tactics of manipulation.
Discuss the Machiavellian personality, including a review of how research on this personality style illustrates the three mechanisms of social interaction (selection, evocation, manipulation).
Discuss narcissism as it relates to social interaction.
Define the key components of a psychological disorder, as conceptualized by modern psychiatry.
Review the various definitions of “abnormal” and identify the modern psychiatric definition of abnormal.
Identify and discuss the key criteria for all personality disorders, according to modern psychiatry.
Compare and contrast the categorical and dimensional approaches to personality disorders.
Discuss the importance of taking into account the contexts of culture, age, and gender, when identifying the presence of a personality disorder.
Discuss the key features of antisocial personality disorder.
Discuss the key features of borderline personality disorder.
Discuss the key features of histrionic personality disorder.
Discuss the key features of narcissistic personality disorder.
Discuss the key features of schizoid personality disorder.
Discuss the key features of schizotypal personality disorder.
Discuss the key features of paranoid personality disorder.
Discuss the key features of avoidant personality disorder.
Discuss the key features of dependent personality disorder.
Discuss the key features of obsessive-compulsive personality disorder.
Discuss key causes that have been proposed for personality disorders.