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Personality Ch. 8
Trait Theory (Allport) Ryckman 10e
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| becoming | Developmental process involving movement toward self-realization. |
| bodily self | Feelings about oneself based on feedback from one's physical senses. |
| central traits | Characteristics that control an individual's behavior in many situations but are less comprehensive than cardinal traits. |
| common traits | Dispositions shared with others. |
| extrinsic religious orientations | According to Allport orientations that are used by people for self-serving purposes. The primary orientation is a narcissistic focus on having their needs met. |
| functional automnomy | Process whereby a behavior that was once controlled by a basic motive comes to operate independently of that motive. |
| genotype | Inherited characteristic that may or may not be reflected in the phenotype, or outward appearance, of the individual. |
| humanistic theory | A theory that emphasizes the dignity and worth of the person. It optimistically assumes that creativity of the individual and movement toward psychological health. |
| idiographic | Scientific approach to the study of behavior that seeks to understand the uniqueness of a specific individual through intensive investigation. |
| intrinsic religious orientations | According to Allport, orientations that are adopted by people to help them make sense of their experiences and to surrender themselves to a power higher than themselves. They are oriented toward helping others and are not narcissistic. |
| nomothetic | Scientific approach to the study of behavior that seeks to establish laws by specifying the general relationships between variables. |
| personal dispositions | Traits unique to the individual. |
| phenotype | Outward appearance of a particular characteristic that may or may not reflect the underlying inherited genotype. |
| propriate striving | Motive that propels the individual toward the attainment of important, long-range goals. These drives involve an increase, rather than a decrease, in tension. |
| properium | Term used by Allport to signify all the various aspects of the person that make him or her unique; the self. |
| psychophysical systems | Components of personality, as defined by Allport, on the basis of his belief that psychological concepts represent actual underlying states in the nervous system. |
| secondary traits | Peripheral characteristics, such as preferences, that exert little control over a person's behavior. |
| self acceptance | Acknowledgement and understand of one's own limitations, along with recognition of one's strengths. |
| self-as-rational-coper | Awareness of oneself as someone capable of rationally formulating and utilizing strategies in order to solve problems and attain personal goals. |
| self-esteem | Feelings about one's worth. |
| self-extension | Sense of identity with one's possessions, family, home & country: Immature =egocentricity, view of other objects, ie family in terms of contributions to own welfare. Mature=need to contribute to well-being of others that are central to one's existence. |
| self-identity | The feeling that one is an established human being with a unique past that guides one's present and future judgments. |
| self-image | Role played in order to win the approval of others; also , plans and behavioral strategies for the future that help people attain their goals. |
| self-as-knower | The different aspects of the proprium are unified by the final aspect of the proprium, the self-as-knower. The self-as-knower is the integrative totality of the person in the process of growth; an entity that is becoming or moving toward self-realization. |
| Aspects of the proprium (self) | The bodily self, self-identity, self-esteem ,self-extension, self-image, self-as-rational-coper, and propriate strivings. |
| self-objectification | Ability to perceive accurately one's own abilities and limitations. |
| social desirability biases | Habitual ways of responding to personality tests that respondents use to win the approval of others by endorsing statements that are socially desirable (ie i am always courteous to others; I never lie; I am never prejudiced against others) |
| trait theory | Conception of personality that postulates the existence of underlying dispositions or characteristics that direct behavior. |
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