01:830:338 Final: PART 2 STUDY GUIDE PERSON PSYCH FINAL
30 Oct 2014
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Gordon allport father of trait psychology, wrote the first book on personality psychology and believed that we are our traits. Gordon allport rebelled from freudian perspective: father of trait psychology, believed that we are our traits. Hans eysenck whittled allport"s 18,000 traits down to a two-factor model of traits (extraversion/introversion vs. neuroticism/(stability) then added psychoticism (3rd factor) traits are bipolar. Believed that behaviors stem from traits interacting with a particular situation. Situationsaccount for behavior, not traits: in personality and assessment (1968), he argues that situations more than traits account for behavior. Fundamental attribution error is when a person attributes other"s behaviors to their traits but their attribute their own behavior to the situation. Example attributing a behavior to a trait melanie didn"t say hi to me in the hall, she such a meanie! Trait is that she is not a nice person. Example attributing behavior to a situation melanie couldn"t say hi because.
