PSYB30H3 Lecture 4: Week 4
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First personality psych book published by him in 1937. First to offer a working definition of personality: A trait is a neuropsychic structure having the capacity to render many stimuli functionally equivalent, and to initiate and guide equivalent (meaningfully consistent) forms of adaptive and expressive behavior. (1961: traits, traits. Refers to some attribute that would be possessed my many/ group of individuals; ex: conscientious. It is some attribute that is possessed by only one person/ specific to a single individual. Consistency is due to the overriding trait that helps to organize and shape the behaviour. The trait is the explanation for the consistency. Those individual differences that are most salient and socially relevant in people"s lives will eventually become encoded into their language; the more important such a difference, the more likely is it to become expressed as a single word.
