L33 Psych 100B Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Jerome Kagan, Sigmund Freud, Developmental Psychology
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Some personality psychologists are most interested in understanding whole persons try to understand as much as possible about a person as an individual. He also championed the study of individuals and established traits as a central concept in personality research. The notion of organization indicates that personality is a coherent whole. This organized whole is dynamic in that it is goal seeking, sensitive to particular contexts, and adaptive to the person"s environment. Allport highlighted the mental nature of personality and that personality arises from basic biological processes (psychophysical) He stresses that personality causes people to have characteristic behaviors and thoughts (and feelings) Correlation in twins: for each trait, the correlations for monozygotic twins were higher than for dizygotic twins. Activity level the overall amount of energy and of behavior a person exhibits. Sociability the general tendency to affiliate with others.
