PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Sigmund Freud, Hierarchical Database Model
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Personality: characteristics, emotional responses, thoughts, and behaviors that are relatively stable over time and across circumstances. Personality trait: a characteristic, a dispositional tendency to act in a certain way over time and across circumstances. Dan mcadams: believes that to know people well, we need to know everything about them, including the personal narratives of their whole lives. Gordon allport: believed that the best working definition of personality is the dynamic organization within the individual of those psychophysical systems that determine his characteristic behaviour and thought . Allport highlights the psychological nature of personality while clearly reorganizing that personality arises from the basic biological process. Allport"s definition stresses that personality causes people to think, behave and feel in relatively consistent ways over time. Allport published the first major textbook of personality psychology, which defined the field. He also championed the stud of individuals and established traits as a central concept in personality research.
