PSYCH356 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Gordon Allport, Phlegm, Factor Analysis
18 Jun 2013
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Chapter 3: the trait-disposition level i & types and traits. Traits are conceptualized as individual differences in tendencies to show consistent behavior across many different situations and with much stability over time. Trait approach: an approach to personality that categorizes individuals in terms of traits. Hippocrates-bodily humors: choleric temperament=excess of yellow bile; depressive temperament=black bile; sanguine person=too much blood; phlegmatic person= too much phlegm. Three most influential trait theorists are: gordon allport, raymond b. cattell, hans j. eysenck. 1937 personality: a psychological interpretation- launched psych of personality as a field and discipline. Allport"s conception of traits continues to guide much of the work at the trait-dispositional level of analysis. In allport"s theory, traits have a very real existence: they are ultimate realitities of psychological organization. Traits are determining tendencies or predispositions to respond. He believed that traits are relatively general and enduring, and that they were able to make, many stimuli functionally equivalent .
