PSYB30H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-3: Gordon Allport, Immanuel Kant, Somatotype And Constitutional Psychology
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Chapter 4 dispositional traits and the prediction of behavior traits: consistent behaviours. Generally conceive of traits as internal dispositions that are relatively stable over time and across situations. Traits are typically conceived in bipolar terms. Traits are often couched in the language of opposites (friendly vs unfriendly) Different traits are seen as additive and independent. Personality traits usually refer to broad individual differences in socioemotional functioning. First position: traits literally exist in the central nervous system which. Second position: traits exist as dispositions that exert a significant impact of behavior. Third and fourth position: traits do not really cause behavior but exist instead as convenient categories for describing the behaviours the people show (third position)act-frequency approach: traits are merely language categories for the organization of discrete behavioural acts. Fourth position: traits do not exist in any objective sense, even in the sense of act categories.
