01:830:338 Study Guide - Final Guide: Personality Psychology, Trait Theory, Discriminant Validity
30 Oct 2014
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Traits are major structural units of personality and account for the consistency and. Everyday life underlying conduct of a mature person are characteristic traits and. Insisted trait labels were more than semantic conveniences- they exist as. Behavior is lawful and predictable due to traits. Existence of a trait in a person may be ascertained from at least 3 kinds of evidence: Common trait: dimensions of human functioning upon which many different people. Defined personality: dymanic org within individuals of those psychophysical. Gordon allport: father of personality trait psychology systems that determine his charactistic behavior and though coherence oh human behavior dispositions. Defined traits as neuropsychic structure having the capacity to render many stimuli functionally equivalent and to initiate and guide equivalent forms of adaptive and expressive behavior unobservable neuropsychic structures are likely to differ. Personal disposition: (typical mood) a trait that is especially characteristic of a given individ and is therefore instrumental for depicting that individual persons uniqueness.
