Psychology 2550A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Conscientiousness, Juvenile Delinquency, Agreeableness
31 Jan 2017
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Two questions drive work at the trait-dispositional level: Trait approach: an approach to personality that categorizes individuals in terms of traits. Traits: a persistent (enduring) characteristic or dimension of individual differences; defined by allport as a generalized (cid:498)neuropsychic system(cid:499) distinctive to each person, that serves to unify many different stimuli by leading the person to generate consistent responses to them. Hippocrates assigned persons to 1 of 4 types: choleric (irritable), melancholic (depressed), sanguine (optimistic), and phlegmatic (calm, listless) Introverts: tendency to withdraw into oneself, especially when encountering stressful emotional conflict; according to jung, the introvert is shy and withdrawn, and prefers to be alone. Extraverts: according to jung, an individual who is conventional, sociable, and outgoing and who reacts to stress by trying to lose himself or herself among people. Some typologies have discontinuous categories but most are measured on continuous dimensions where differences can be arranged in terms of degree of the quality a person has.
