chapter 14 Flashcards
personality
study of an individuals characteristic ways of feeling, acting and thinking
Four factor theory
based on 4 humors-blood, black, bile, yellow bile phlegm (what ever you had brought out those personalities)
Psychoanalytic Model (Freud)
dependent on libido fixation
Allport Brothers
Floyd & Gordon
Floyd Allport (1890-1978)
published social psychology, worked with munstenberg
What did Floyd look at?
looked at personality shaped by experience
Gordon Allport (1897-1967)
american psychologist who is considered the founder of modern personality psychology
“The study of the undivided personality” (Gordon Allport)
concept of the self as an unchangeable core of an individual
Trait
a stable internal characteristic of an individual that is a determinant of behavior
Who was the founder of the trait theory?
Gordon Allport
What is the trait theory?
personalities can be analyzed into a finite number of measure able traits
What did G. Allport believe personality could be divided into?
into 3 categories single cardinal trait, central traits & secondary traits
London School
those that measured individual differences and searched for laws governing these differences
Who studied intelligence and later on began looking at personality
spearman & burt
Raymond Cattell (1905-1998)
British american psychologist who proposed an influential sixteen-factor model of personality
Fluid Intelligence
speed of processing a fact
crystallized intelligence
facts, information you already know
What did Cattell develop?
a culture-free intelligence test that measured fluid intelligence
Why did Cattell leave Harvard?
he needed a fast acting computer for his research
What did Cattell develop from the computer?
that personality had a hierarchical structure with broad second-order factors above and two or three narrow first-order factors clusters underneath each of these?
Who developed the sixteen personality factor questionnaire (16pf)
Cattell, it’s used to measure each of the first order factors he’d found in his analyses
Who believed some factors were biologically based, while others environmentally based?
Cattell