GORDON ALLPORT: PSYCHOLOGY OF THE INDIVIDUAL

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study of the individual

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Morphogenic Science

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are a process that involves gathering data on a single individual

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Morphogenic Methods

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the dynamic organization within the individual of those psychophysical systems that determine his unique adjustments to his environment

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Personality

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personality is both ____ and ____; includes both ____ and ____; it is not only is something, but it ____

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physical and psychological
overt behaviors and covert thoughts
does something

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

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Conscious Motivation

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capable of consciously acting on their environment in new and innovative ways and causing their environment to react to them

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Proactive Behavior

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Structure of Personality

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Personal Dispositions

Common Traits

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

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Personal Dispositions

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general characteristics

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Common Traits

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ruling passion that dominates their lives

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Cardinal Dispositions

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includes 5 to 10 most outstanding characteristics around which a person’s life focuses

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Central Dispositions

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less conspicuous but far greater in number than central dispositions

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Secondary Dispositions

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intensely experienced dispositions.

initiate action.

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Motivational Dispositions

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personal dispositions that are less intensely experienced.
guides action.
how?

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Stylistic Dispositions

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peculiarly mine characteristics
behaviors and characteristics that people regard as warm, central, and important in their lives.
warm center of personality

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Proprium

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the explanation for behavior, and one need not look beyond it for hidden or primary causes

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Functional Autonomy

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the tendency of an impression to leave an influence on subsequent experience

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Perseverative Functional Autonomy

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the master system of motivation that confers unity on personality which also refers to those self-sustaining motives that are related to the proprium

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Propriate Functional Autonomy

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stage development

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Bodily Self
Self-Identity
Self-Esteem
Extension of Self
Self-Image
Self as rational coper
Propriate Striving
Adulthood

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infants become aware of their own existence and distinguish their own bodies from objects in the environment

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Bodily Self

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their identity remains intact despite the many changes that are taking place

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Self-Identity

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children learn to take pride in their accomplishments

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Self-Esteem

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children come to recognize the objects and people that are part of their own world

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Extension of Self

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children develop actual and idealized images of themselves and their behavior

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Self-Image

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children begin to apply reason and logic to the solution of everyday problems

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Self as rational coper

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young people begin to formulate long-range goals and plans

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Propriate striving

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normal, mature adults are functionally autonomous, independent of childhood motives

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Adulthood

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source of affection and security

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Infant-Mother bond

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seeks general laws

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Nomothetic Research

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peculiar to the single case

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Idiographic Research

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patterned properties of the whole organism and allows for intraperson comparisons

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Morphogenic Science