Gordon William Allport

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Gordon William Allport’s theory

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Psychology of the Individual

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Psychology of the individual

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Emphasized the uniqueness of the individual

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What did Allport called the study of individual?

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Morphogenic Science

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Methods used by most other psychologists

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Nomothetic

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Morphogenic methods and nomothetic methods difference

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Morphogenic methods gather data on a single individual whereas nomothetic methods gather data on groups of people

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Dynamic organization within the individual of those psychosocial systems that determine his unique adjustments to his environment

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Personality

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

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Conscious motivation

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They 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

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Proactive behavior

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6 criteria for the mature personality

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• extension of the sense of self
• personalities characterized by a warm relating of self to others
• emotional security or self- acceptance
• possess a realistic perception of the environment
• insight and humor
• unifying philosophy of life

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To Allport, most important structures are those that permit the description of the person in terms of individual characteristics or

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Personal dispositions

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General characteristics held in common by many people

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Common traits

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Generalized neuropsychic structure with the capacity the 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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Levels of personal dispositions

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Cardinal dispositions
Central dispositions
Secondary dispositions
Motivational and stylistic dispositions

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Posses an eminent characteristic or ruling passion so outstanding that it dominates their lives

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Cardinal dispositions

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Include 5-10 most outstanding characteristics around which a 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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Motivational and stylistic dispositions

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Motivational dispositions - receive their motivation from basic needs and drives

Stylistic dispositions - guide action

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Behaviors and characteristics that people regard as warm, central and important in their lives

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Proprium

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Reduce a need

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Peripheral motives

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To maintain tension and disequilibrium

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Propriate strivings

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Psychoanalysis and the carious learning theories are basically homeostatic or

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Reactive

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A theory of changing rather tham unchanging motives and is the capstone of Allport’s ideas on motivation

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Functional autonomy

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2 levels of functional autonomy

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Preservative functional autonomy
Propriate functional autonomy

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Tendency of an impression to leave an influence in subsequent experience

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Preservative functional autonomy

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Master system of motivation that confers unity on personality. Refers to those self sustaining motives that are related to the proprium..

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Propriate functional autonomy