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Allport thinks about biological nature of personality and human brain. En passant personality serves as a function/reason help to regulate how we do things everydat. Original definition; the dynamic organization within the individual of those psychophysical systems that determine his [or her] unique adjustments to the environment seems to think it"s reactive. Revised definition: the dynamic organization within the individual of those psychophysical systems that determine his [or her] characteristic behavior and thought. Trait: neuropsychic structure having capacity to render many stimuli functionally and initiate and guide equivalent forms of adaptive and expressive behavior. Individual individ trait only possessed by 1. Traits cardinal, central and 2ndary cardinal so pervasive that all aspect of person"s functioning can be traced back to it, central 5-10, secondary - limited to scope, less central to define personality. Allport"s psycholoexical study: sorting 55,000 terms in webster"s dictionary, allpoort and odbert found 18,000 terms to show capacity to distinguish behavior of one human form another .

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