PSYC 330- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 25 pages long!)
29 Mar 2018
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Gordon allport: three-tiered hierarchy of personality traits, consisting of: Cardinal traits: rare, but strongly deterministic of behavior. Cardinal traits are characteristics that dominate your personality and strongly influence your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. They are so pervasive and defining of your personality that might have a reputation based on this trait. Cardinal traits are often so strong that they impact or even control other people. Allport believed that not everyone has a cardinal trait and that their existence is relatively rare. I(cid:374)stead, he (cid:271)elie(cid:448)ed (cid:373)ost peoples" perso(cid:374)alities are shaped (cid:271)(cid:455) (cid:373)ultiple i(cid:373)porta(cid:374)t traits versus one powerful and all-encompassing one. Popular historical examples of cardinal traits can be seen in hitler and mother teresa, each clearly possessing opposite cardinal traits of ruthlessness and selflessness. As seen with these examples, (cid:272)ardi(cid:374)al traits (cid:272)learl(cid:455) a(cid:374)d profou(cid:374)dl(cid:455) shape a perso(cid:374)"s life a(cid:374)d their relatio(cid:374)ships. Central traits: present to varying degrees in all people. Central traits influence, but do not deter(cid:373)i(cid:374)e, a(cid:374)d i(cid:374)di(cid:448)idual"s (cid:271)eha(cid:448)ior.
