PSY230H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Gordon Allport, Raymond Cattell, Collective Unconscious
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Question1: paul is late 30s. really focus on his work and rising kids. generativity and stagnation. Displacement and the sublimation when you cannot release your aggression. They went to the dictionary and focus in the language that describe people. Using the dictionary biased on the western culture. He talks about 2 approaches that we can talk about personality. Allport said that there are 5-10 traits that best predicted a person. Secondary traits: traits are not guide your behaviour too often, it depends on the situation. Henry murray (works close to jung, and uses the collective unconscious) Power: need to have power over other people and need admiration from other people. To be close to other people, not lonely and human connections. Materialistic: require realistic things, need things to show off like that. Factor analysis: give questionnaire to a lot of people and see the overlaps.
