PSYB30H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4-6: Gordon Allport, California Psychological Inventory, Hans Eysenck
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Trait is considered to be an internal disposition. Conceived in bipolar terms: friendliness vs. unfriendliness. Personality usually refer to broad individuals differences in socio-emotional functioning: immanuel kant: temperament (traits) & character (schemas) Personality traits refer to individual differences between people u characteristic thoughts, feelings, and behaviours. Arguments for positions: biological reality, dispositional nature of traits, traits connected to functionally similar behaviour, traits label are useful in everyday social cognition. Galen and four humours: blood: confident, bold, black bile: depressed, anxious, yellow bile: restless, phlegm: cold, sluggish. Traits account for consistency in human behaviour. Common traits are dimensions of human functioning upon which many different people are likely to differ. Personal disposition trait that is especially characteristic of a given individual and therefore instrumental for depicting that individual person"s uniqueness. Cardinal disposition: general and pervasive trait, directly or indirectly involved in a wide range of the person"s activity: feature of a person"s personality profile, many people have no cardinal disposition.
