PSYC 2143 Study Guide - Final Guide: Big Five Personality Traits, Gordon Allport, Hexaco Model Of Personality Structure
21 Oct 2020
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Personality a person"s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling and behaving that is unique to each individual, and remains relatively consistent over time and situations. Idiographic approach focusing on creating detailed descriptions of a person"s unique personality characteristics. Figuring out what is the problem with a friend. Abraham maslow wanted to understand the people who had lived up to their fullest potential or self-actualized . Nomothetic approach examine personality in large groups of people, with the aim of making generalizations about personality structure. Wanting to know whether a person will exhibit a certain type of behaviour. Personality trait a specific psychological characteristic that makes up part of a person"s personality. Or how that person is most of the time. Gordon allport in 1930 first systematic attempt to identify all possible traits. He developed a theory of personality structure by organizing these words into traits.
