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to study a select individual in depth
-uses interviews, diaries, autobiograpshies |
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the gathering of information on groups of people
-seeks general law |
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| Allports eclectic approach to theory building |
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| accepted some contributions of earlier theorists, but believed that no one theorist is able to adequately explain a growing and unique personailty |
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| Allport's criticism of other theories |
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| didn't agree with theories that emphasize a single aspect or trait of personality, believed that a broad comprehensive theory is preferred over the narrow even if it doesn't generate many testable hypothesis |
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| Allport's 3 aspects of personality theory |
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1. What is personality
2. what's the role of the conscious motivation
3. What are the characteristics of the psychologically healthy person |
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both psychical and psychological
it includes overt behaviors and covert thoughts
not only IS something but DOES something
both substance and change
both product and process
both structure and growth |
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| Role of Conscious Motivation |
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| most generally healthy people are aware of what they are doing and their reasons for doing it |
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| What are characteristics of a healty |
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| What are characteristics of a healthy person? |
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1. extension of sense of self
2.warm relating of self to others
3.emotional security or self acceptance
4.realistic perception of their environment
5. insight and humor
6.unifying philosophy of life |
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| behavior that not only reacts to stimuli, but us capable if consciously acting on their environment in new and innovative ways and causing their environment to react to them |
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| Personal dispositions are: |
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| important structures that allow the description if the person in terms of individual characteristics |
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| general characteristics held in common by many people |
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| Levels of personal dispositions: |
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Cardinal-obvious and ingrained
Central- 5-10 characteristics around which a person's life focus's (what would be found in a letter of recommendation for a person)
Secondary- not central to one's personality but occur with some regularity |
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| Motivational Dispositions are: |
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intensely experienced and receive their motivation from basic needs and drives
-they initiate action |
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| stylistic dispositions are: |
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| less intensely experienced than motivational dispositions yet possess the power to guide action |
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| defined as behaviorism and characteristics that people regard as warm, central, and important in their lives |
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| aspects not considered in one's proprium are: |
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1. basic drives that are easily met
2. tribal customs ( wearing clothes)
3. habitual behaviors (smoking) |
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| seek to maintain tension and disequilibrium |
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| see people as being motivated by needs to reduce tension and return to a state of equilibrium |
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| Allport beleived an adequate theory must allow for proactive behavior which: |
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| views people as consciously acting on their environment in a manner that permits growth toward psychological health. |
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represents a theory of changing rather than unchanging motives
-holds that some human motives are functionally independent from the original motive responsible for the behavior |
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| Allport's 4 requirements of an adequate theory of motivation: |
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1. will acknowledge the contemporaneity of motives "whatever moves us must move now"
2.it will be a pluralistic theory-allowing for motives of many types
3. it will ascribe dynamic force to cognitive processes exp. planning and intention
4. will allow for the concrete uniqueness of motives(a concrete motive that is achieved in a way that is unique to the person) |
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| 2 kinds of functional autonomy: |
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1. Perseverative- to continue a task even after original motive has been satisfied
2. Propriate- self-sustaining motives that are related to the proprium (occupations, hobbies, interests) |
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