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| What paradigm does Gordon Allport belong to? |
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| what was the most important factor about behavior and personality for Allport? |
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| what is the best way according to Allport to be able to see a persons true motives? |
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| emphasized the wholeness and interrelatednes of conscious experience and also ignored the unconcious mind almost completely |
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| Allport definition of personality |
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| personality is the dynamic organization within the individual of those psychophysical systems that determine his unique adjustements to his enviornment |
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| personality is always changing and __________ |
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| personality is not ever something that is but something that is __________ |
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| continuity and organization |
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| personality has __________ and ______________ within the person but it is constantly changeing oe becoming something different |
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| not exclusively mental or exclusively biological |
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| temperment, intelligence and physique |
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| the raw materials of personality they all genetically determined |
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| the emotional component of personality |
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| is a category in which one person can be placed by another person. we use this word when we describe other people. |
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| peronsality cannot be explained in _________ mechanisms but only in _______________ mechanisms. |
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| Allport beleived unlike Freud that we seek motives for behaior in _______ intead of _________ |
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| describe the ______ dynamic of the personaility is crucial you can not leave anything out |
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| this is something that as humans we possess while other living things do not. Allport beleived that we must look at this in order to have a good theory on personality. |
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| a neuropsychic structure having the capacity to render many stimuli functionally equivalent and to initiate and guide equivalent forms of adaptive and expressive behavior. |
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| in other words this also means this causes a person to respond to similar enviornmental situations in similar ways. |
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| because two people _______ have the same traits they will never react to the same situation exactly the same |
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| more specific than triats |
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| specific mode of responding for example putting on clean clothes in the morning, that develops because a more general trait exsists, for example the trait of cleanliness. |
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| are more specific than traits. You can have this toward something, for instance, a certain person, a make of an automobile, or travel. these are sually for or against something. |
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| possessed by a particular individual |
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| are those shared by several individuals |
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| what kind of traits did Allport beleive that a personality theorists should study? |
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| intense study of one case in great detail. |
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| studies groups of individuals and analyzes averages |
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| identical to individual trait, which is the unique patterns of traits possessed by an individual or the unique way in which a particular trait manifests itself in the personality of a particular person. |
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| influences almost everything he or she does |
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| summarize the consistencies in that persons behavior. the 5 to 10 qualities you would mention about a person in a letter of recommendation. |
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| more specific than cardinal or central but still more feneral than habits and attitudes. May be a persons prederence for flamboyant clothing or for sweet food. |
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| the organizer of the personality, this includes all the facts about a person that make him or her unique. |
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| attribute that emerges during the second stage in developmnt of the proprium. develops the thought and knoweldge that they are the same person even though their size and body may change. |
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| the sense of pride that emerges when children learn they can do things on their own |
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| happens in the fourth stage. during this stage they learn the meaning of the word mine. they realize that not only do their bodies belong to them but so do certain toys and games. |
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| fourth to sixth year, children develop a conscience that acts as a frame of reference for the good me and the bade me. they can compare what they do with the expectations others have of them. |
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| sixth to twelfth year, children recognize thinking as a means of solving lifes problems. they begin to think about thinking. |
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| twelfth year through adolescence, people become almost completly future oriented, long term goals are created that give organization and meanign to life. |
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| satisfaction of a basic need to many theorists the elimination of these is the primary goal in life, Allport did not agree |
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| this happens in through adulthood, when the self is aware of, unifies, and transcends the preceding seven aspects of the self. In other words synthesizes all of the propriate functions. |
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| moral guide used by children whereby their moral judgements are determined by the internalized values of authority figures such as the parents. |
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| moral guide used by normal healthy adults whereby their moral judgements are governed by their own personal values and propriate strivings |
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| any aquired system of motivation in which the tensions involved are not of the same kind as the antecedent tensions from which the aquired system developed. |
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| attribute that emerges during the first stage in the development of the proprium, infants learn that their bodies exsists because of their sensory experiences |
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| perservative functional autonomy |
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| refers to repetitious activites in which one blindly engages and that once served a purpose but no longer does so. an example is when a man still rises at 7:30 each morning even though he has been retired for a couple of years. |
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| propriate functional autonomy |
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| refers to an individuals interests, values, goals, attitudes, and sentiments. |
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| principle of mastery and competence |
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| principle stating that an innate need exsists for humans so aspire to greater mastery and competence |
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| principle of organizing energy level |
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| principle stating that enery that was once used for survival can be changed into concern for the future when survival is no longer an issue. |
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| principle of propriate patterning |
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| principle stating that the proprium is the frame of reference that is used by a person in determining what is worth pursuing and what is not. |
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| honest appraisals of ones assests and liabilities that characterizes the healthy mature adult. |
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unifying philosophy of life
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| hold together the life of a healthy mature adult and gives it meaning. |
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| a feeling favoable or unfavorable, toward a person or thing, prior to, ot not based on actual experience |
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| Allport beleived that a __________ orientation often characterized the healthy adult person. |
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| this is unhealthy religion. it is immature and often a carryover from childhood, superficial religion that is participated in for entirely selfish reasons. |
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| is healthy religion. motivates a person to seek and follow the value underlying all reality for its own sake and as an end in iself. religion that seeks a higher purpose and meaning in life and provides many answers to the many mysteries that characterize human existance. |
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| Allport beleived this was one of the best ways to understand a persons specific personality. These include diaries, autobiogrpahies, letters or interviews. |
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| capacity for warm human interactions |
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| ability to have intimate relationships with others without being possessive or jealous. |
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