PSYC 1010 Chapter : Module 42 – Trait Theories.docx

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

Document Summary

Module 42 trait theories, social-cognitive theories, and the self. Gordon allport, 22 year old psychology student, interviewed sigmund freud: this interview led allport to describe personality in terms of fundamental traits, people"s characteristic behaviors and conscious motives. Traits: a characteristic pattern of behaviors of a disposition to feel and act, as assessed by self-report inventoried and peer reports. This meeting with freud taught allport that psychoanalysis may plunge too deep and that psychologists would do well to give full recognition to manifest motives before probing the unconscious. Allport came to define personality in terms of identifiable behavior patterns. He was concerned less with explaining individual traits that with describing them. Isabel briggs myers and katharine briggs wanted to describe important personality differences according to carl jung"s personality types based on their responses to 126 questions: the myers-briggs type indicator (mbti)