PSY230H1 Chapter Notes -Raymond Cattell, Gordon Allport, Thematic Apperception Test

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Said he spent much of his childhood alone. Good at language but not sports or games. Went to harvard and focused on psychology and social ethics. Meet freud; considered his ascription of most behaviours to the unconscious motives as incorrect. Did not concur with freud on sexuality either. The dynamic organization within the individual of those psychophysical systems that determine his characteristic behaviour and thought. Personality is not a concept but a real entity. The first says that personality is the accumulation of skills, habits, discriminations and nothing really new appears. The latter says that there are true transformations and changes in personality. With each changing letting the individual get to higher levels of organization. The first suggests accumulation the other suggests reshaping and that change is qualitative not quantitative. It determines a tendency or predisposition to respond to the world in a certain way. A hypothetical construct that allows us to compare individuals within a given culture.