Lecture 21 - Personality & Intelligence

Question 1

Define personality.

Answer 1

Gordon Allport (1961); introduced the term ‘personality’

“Personality is: a dynamic organisation, inside the person, of psychophysical systems that create the person’s characteristic patterns of behaviour, thoughts and feelings”

Question 2

There are many traits and theories of personality.

Answer 2

Look at relevant powerpoint slides to see this.

Question 3

Define intelligence.

Answer 3

Intelligence: ‘endowed with the faculty of reason; alert; bright; quick of mind; mental rightness’
(Chambers dictionary)
Herbert Spencer
(1820 - 1903)

Sternberg & Detterman, (1986) – asked psychologists to define intelligence – many different answers

‘Ability to learn, remember, recognise concepts and apply them to own behaviour in an adaptive
Edwin Boring
(1886 - 1968)

Boring (1926) ‘intelligence has come to represent whatever intelligence tests measure’

Question 4

READ CHAPT 14 pg. 594-600

Answer 4

(make notes if you want or just teach yourself on whiteboard)

Question 5

READ CHAPT 11, pg. 415-431

Answer 5

(make notes if you want or just teach yourself on whiteboard)

Question 6

Read the relevant powerpoint because I missed a lot.

Answer 6

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