PSYCH 2B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Gordon Allport, Raymond Cattell, Mother Teresa
25 Sep 2020
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Traits, situations and behaviour personality september 21. Allport"s psychology of personality: gordon allport and h. s odbert counted all of the personality words in the dictionary . 18,000: he used factor analysis to identify clusters of words, he developed a list of 4500 traits organized into three levels, 1. Cardinal traits: rare, but very dominant trait: ex: mother teresa goodness and charity, einstein genius, 2. Central traits: prominent and general; building blocks of personality; most people have 5-10: not as dominant as cardinal, our behaviour intelligence, shyness, honesty, 3. Secondary traits: disposition that varies situationally; displays itself occasionally: attitudes or preferences, only seen in certain situations. Eysenck"s dimensions of personality: hans and sybil eysenck reduced the model further, innate and genetically based personality differences, first, 1. Neuroticism vs. emotional stability: pretty anxious (n, more stimulation to active fight and flight, next, 3. Independent thinker, cold, anti-social: high in socialization, empathetic (imp con, strength biologically based legitimate, weakness too narrow in focus.
