PSY 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Gordon Allport, Psychological Types, Extraversion And Introversion

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: victor emerson

Document Summary

Much of the personality material we"ve considered looks at the person as a unitary item. This can be considered a top down approach. By contrast, the trait perspective sees the person as a group of traits, or components , that together make up the person. The trait perspective was developed by gordon allport, who tried to describe human personality in terms of traits or characteristics. Allport"s intent was to describe traits, not to explain them. For some reason, the textbook combines traits and types. In contrast to traits, the personality type perspective uses a top-down approach, but with some acknowledgment of components. The primary approach to personality types uses the myers briggs type indicator (mbti) as a tool to sort people. This tool is standardised, available in different languages, and used for counselling, leadership training, and workplace teams. The development of the myers-briggs test was based on carl jung"s book psychological.