Allport: Psychology of the Individual

Question 1

Study of the individual according to Allport.

Answer 1

Morphogenic science

Question 2

Gather data on groups of people.

Answer 2

Nomothetic methods

Question 3

The dynamic organization within the individual of those psychophysical systems that determine his characteristic behaviour and thought according to Allport.

Answer 3

Personality

Question 4

Said that healthy adults are generally aware of what they are doing and their reasons for doing it.

Answer 4

Gordon Allport

Question 5

The importance of what did Allport emphasize?

Answer 5

Conscious motivation

Question 6

People do not only react to external stimuli, but they are capable of consciously acting on their environment in new and innovative ways and causing their environment to react to them.

Answer 6

Proactive behaviour

Question 7

Criteria for mature personality which states that mature people continually seek to identify with and participates in events outside themselves.

Answer 7

Extension of the sense of self

Question 8

Criteria for mature personality which states that mature people have the capacity to love others in an intimate and compassionate manner.

Answer 8

Warm relating of self to others

Question 9

Criteria for mature personality which states that mature individuals accept themselves for what they are, and they possess emotional poise.

Answer 9

Emotional security of self-acceptance

Question 10

Criteria for mature personality which states that psychologically healthy people do not live in a fantasy world or bend reality to fit their own wishes.

Answer 10

Realistic perception (of their environment)

Question 11

Criteria for mature personality which states that mature people know themselves and, therefore, have no need to attribute their own mistakes and weaknesses to others.

Answer 11

Insight and humor

Question 12

Criteria for mature personality which states that healthy people have a clear view of the purposes of life.

Answer 12

Unifying philosophy of life

Question 13

According to Allport, they are general characteristics held in common by many people.

Answer 13

Common traits

Question 14

A generalized neuropsychic structure, with the capacity to render many stimuli functionally equivalent, and to initiate and guide consistent forms of adaptive and stylistic behavior.

Answer 14

Personal dispositions

Question 15

Level of personal dispositions which states that some people possess an eminent characteristic or ruling passion so outstanding that it dominates their lives.

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Cardinal dispositions

Question 16

Level of personal dispositions which are those that would be listed in an accurate letter of recommendation written by someone who knew the person quite well.

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Central disposition

Question 17

Level of personal dispositions which are less conspicuous but far greater in number than central dispositions.

Answer 17

Secondary dispositions

Question 18

Personal dispositions that are less intensely experienced; guide action

Answer 18

Stylistic dispositions

Question 19

Personal dispositions that initiate action.

Answer 19

Motivational dispositions

Question 20

Refer to those behaviours and characteristics that people regard as warm, central, and important in their lives.

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Proprium

Question 21

Motives that reduce a need.

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Peripheral motives

Question 22

Seek to maintain tension and disequilibrium

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Propriate strivings

Question 23

Its concept holds that some, but not all, human motives are functionally independent from the original motive responsible for the behavior.

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Functional autonomy

Question 24

Refers to those self-sustaining motives that are related to the proprium.

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Propriate functional autonomy

Question 25

Seeks general laws.

Answer 25

Nomothetic

Question 26

Refers to that which is peculiar to the single case.

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Idiographic