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Theories Of Personality Allport
This deck covers Allport's theories of personality, focusing on the uniqueness of individuals, motivation, personal dispositions, and functional autonomy.
Theory that emphasized the uniqueness of each individual and built as a reaction against what he regarded as the non-humanistic positions both psychoanalysis and animal-based learning
Allport’s psychology of the individual
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Definition
Theory that emphasized the uniqueness of each individual and built as a reaction against what he regarded as the non-humanistic positions both psychoanalysis and animal-based learning
Allport’s psychology of the individual
Study of the individual
Morphogenic science
Human are motivated by present, conscious drives and that they not only seek to reduce tensions but to establish new ones
Personality approach of allport
The dynamic organization within the individual of those psychophysical systems that determine his characteristic behavior and thought; includes both overt and covert thoughts
Personality
Healthy adults are generally aware of what they are doing and reasons for doing it
Conscious motivation
Recognized the act that some motivation is driven by hidden impulses and sublimated drives, typically originate in childhood and retain a childish flavor in adult years
unconscious motivation
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
Theory that emphasized the uniqueness of each individual and built as a reaction against what he regarded as the non-humanistic positions both psychoanalysis and animal-based learning | Allport’s psychology of the individual |
Study of the individual | Morphogenic science |
Human are motivated by present, conscious drives and that they not only seek to reduce tensions but to establish new ones | Personality approach of allport |
The dynamic organization within the individual of those psychophysical systems that determine his characteristic behavior and thought; includes both overt and covert thoughts | Personality |
Healthy adults are generally aware of what they are doing and reasons for doing it | Conscious motivation |
Recognized the act that some motivation is driven by hidden impulses and sublimated drives, typically originate in childhood and retain a childish flavor in adult years | unconscious motivation |
Characterized by proactive and reactive behavior | Psychologically healthy personality |
Characteristic of a mature/healthy personality | extension of the sense of self; warm relating of self to others; emotional security; realistic view of the world; insight and humor; unifying philosophy of life |
The earmark of maturity | Self-extension |
Basic units of personality | personal dispositions and proprium |
General characteristics held in common by many people; permit inter-individual comparisons | common traits |
Generalized neuropsychic structure with the capacity to render many stimuli functionally equivalent and initiate and guide forms of adaptive and stylistic behavior; traits that are peculiar to the individual | personal dispositions |
levels of personal dispositions | cardinal, central, secondary dispositions |
Dispositions that are so obvious and dominating they cannot be hidden from other people | cardinal dispositions |
5-10 most outstanding characteristics around which a person’s life focuses; close friends and close acquaintances | central dispositions |
Less conspicuous but far greater in number than central dispositions | secondary dispositions |
Dispositions which are strong enough to initiate action; akin to Maslow’s expressive behavior | motivational dispositions |
Dispositions which refer to the manner in which an individual behaves and which guide rather than initiate action; akin to Maslow’s coping behavior | stylistic dispositions |
Behaviors and characteristics that people regard as warm, central and important; center of personality | proprium |
Seek to maintain tension and disequilibrium | proprium strivings |
reduce a need | peripheral motives |
Most people are motivated by present drives rather than by past events and are aware of what they are doing and understand why they are doing it | allport’s theory of motivation |
Holds that some human motives are functionally independent from the original motive responsible for a particular behavior | functional autonomy |
The capstone of Allport’s ideas on motivation | functional autonomy |
2 levels of functional autonomy | perseverative functional autonomy and propriate functional autonomy |
Tendency of certain basic behaviors to continue in the absence of reinforcement | perseverative functional autonomy |
Refers to the self-sustaining motives (such as interests, hobbies) that are related to the proprium | Propriate functional autonomy |
The master system of motivation that confers unity in personality | Propriate functional autonomy |
Personal structure analysis | techniqe used to analyze letters from jenny |
A mark of a healthy and mature person | deep religious commitment |
Assess both intrinsic and extrinsic motivation toward religion created by allport | Religious Orientation scale (ROS) |
Reduce racial prejudice | contact hypothesis |
Allport saw people as thinking, proactive, purposeful being who are generally aware of what they are doing and why. | Allport's concept of humanity |