PSY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Julian Rotter, Gordon Allport, Albert Bandura

• School: University of Rochester
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 101
• Professor: Niemiec

Document Summary

Emergence of the trait approach: three forces. In this psychological landscape, psychologists started to recognize the existence of meaningful and stable aspects of personality. These aspects can be used to predict our thoughts, feelings, and behavior: the seminal work of gordon allport. What are traits: characteristic patterns of behavior and conscious motives, trait theorist were less interested in explaining behavior and more interested in describing behavior. Exploring traits: myers-briggs type indicator (mbti) An early attempt to sort people into different personality types. Differe(cid:374)t people"s perso(cid:374)ality (cid:272)a(cid:374) (cid:271)e (cid:272)lassified into different types and two dimensions (attitudes and functions) Functions describe how we come into contact with the world around us. Used to identify trait clusters (how different traits hang together) Two basic dimensions: extroversion v. introversion, emotional stability v. emotional instability, biological influences on personality. There are neurobiological, neuroanatomical, neurochemical influences that give rise to individual differences in personality.