Undergraduate Course: Causes and Consequences of Personality (PSYL10064)
Course Outline
| School | School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences | 
College | College of Humanities and Social Science | 
 
| Course type | Standard | 
Availability | Available to all students | 
 
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate) | 
Credits | 10 | 
 
| Home subject area | Psychology | 
Other subject area | None | 
   
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Taught in Gaelic? | No | 
 
| Course description | The course will give you powerful frameworks to understand and human behaviour: We cover the major domains: What functions does personality serve?; Facets: What is buried inside the 5 domains?; Values as the immediate causes of behavior; Well-being: How does being happy differ from living a good life?; How can individual differences help us understanding the world: education, relationships, work, abnormal psychology. 
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Information for Visiting Students 
| Pre-requisites | Degree major in Psychology and passes in Psychology courses at least to the equivalent of Junior Honours level in Edinburgh. Prior agreement with the 4th Year Honours Course Organiser | 
 
| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? | Yes | 
 
 
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2012/13  Block 1 (Sem 1), Available to all students (SV1) 
  
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WebCT enabled:  Yes | 
Quota:  None | 
 
	
		| Location | 
		Activity | 
		Description | 
		Weeks | 
		Monday | 
		Tuesday | 
		Wednesday | 
		Thursday | 
		Friday | 
	 
| Central | Lecture |  | 1-5 |  |  |  |  |  11:10 - 13:00 |  
| First Class | 
First class information not currently available |  
| No Exam Information | 
 
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| Delivery period: 2012/13  Block 1 (Sem 1), Part-year visiting students only (VV1) 
  
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WebCT enabled:  Yes | 
Quota:  None | 
 
	
		| Location | 
		Activity | 
		Description | 
		Weeks | 
		Monday | 
		Tuesday | 
		Wednesday | 
		Thursday | 
		Friday | 
	 
| Central | Lecture |  | 1-5 |  |  |  |  |  11:10 - 13:00 |  
| First Class | 
First class information not currently available |  
| No Exam Information | 
 
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes 
By the end of the course, students should know, and be able to apply: 
1. Personality models and measures 
2. Wellbeing models and measures 
3. Models of values and attitudes 
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Assessment Information 
100% exam 
Visiting Student Variant Assessment 
Long essay (3000 words) to be sent to course organiser and due Friday 4pm, Week 13 |  
 
Special Arrangements 
| None |   
 
Additional Information 
| Academic description | 
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| Syllabus | 
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| Transferable skills | 
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| Reading list | 
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| Study Abroad | 
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| Keywords | Normal personality; life outcomes; personality disorder; psychopathy; well-being | 
 
 
Contacts 
| Course organiser | Dr Timothy Bates 
Tel: (0131 6)51 1945 
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Course secretary | Mrs Elizabeth Wright 
Tel: (0131 6)50 9870 
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