PSYCH 2B03 Lecture Notes - Hans Eysenck, Raymond Cattell, Conscientiousness
19 Apr 2013
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Personality is the dynamic organization within the individual of those psychophysical (mind and body) systems that determine his characteristic, behavior and thought. So, personality isn"t traits, it"s the inter-relatedness between all of these traits or systems that guide behavior: biological functioning and propriate functioning. Proprium ( self ) includes those aspects of our experience that we find to be essential (i. e. , not accidental), warm (precious), and central. There are certain biological functions that everybody would have, excretion, inhalation, sleeping, sex these are biological traits everybody has. Allport was more interested in the propriate functions functions that had to do with the self trying to advance towards some state of self-awareneness or self-flowering. There are certain core aspects of our life we feel are fundamental to who we are, fundamental to the self, they are core to us, and we took them on, we had some choice in the matter.
