PSYC 2130 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7-9: Criminal Type, Human Behaviour, Junk Food
6 Dec 2012
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According to the dispositional strategy, people differ in the way they are generally disposed to behave. Box 7. 1 involves a long ass exercise which seems pretty complex and not so important, so i"ll skip that. Check out box 7. 1 though, it"s worth a peek. Gordon allport (1937) was one of the first people to examine dispositional terms that we use (trait names) to describe others. He says that many are synonymous (mean the same thing), so the list can be reduced. Most people use about 3-10 different adjectives to describe people. People feel more comfortable describing someone they don"t know as well. Also noticed that dispositions vary in the degree to which they pervade a particular personality. In terms of pervasiveness, people tend not to have dispositions that entirely take over their personality (ex. the almost always category). There could be a person with few dispositions that characterize them in many situations.
