PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Dispositional Attribution, Peer Pressure, Fundamental Attribution Error
26 Feb 2017
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Arose in (cid:883)95(cid:882)"s as response to: psychoanalytic theories, behaviorism. Trying to understand what it really means to be human and to be alive. People are basically good; given the right environment their personality will develop fully. Self-concept: ideal self vs. actual self, change vs. acceptance. What you should change and what you should accept about yourself. Characteristics: realism & acceptance, spontaneous, problem-centered, autonomy. ***know the basic differences between these 3 personality theories!! Gordon allport (1936): traits are habitual patterns of behavior; dispositions, stable over time, differ across individuals, predict behavior. Allport (1936) 4000 descriptions of traits in english dictionary: cardinal. Become known as that type of person. Individuals are rarely defined by cardinal traits: central. Not necessarily stable or the same across time. Eysenck: personality traits are a function of two basic dimensions along: introversion/extraversion (can we be both an introvert and, 16pf questionnaire. Cattell reduced theses to 16 traits.
