Chapter 14 - What is Personality?

Question 1

What is Personality:

personality

Answer 1

• People differ from each other in meaningful ways
• People seem to show some consistency in behaviour
  
  • the distinctive and relatively enduring ways of thinking, feeling, and acting that characterize a person’s responses to life situations

Question 2

What is Personality:

The three charactetistics of the aspects of personality

Answer 2

• Seen as components of identity that distinguish that person from other people
• Behaviours viewed as being caused primarily by internal rather than environmental factors
• Behaviours seem to fit together in a meaningful fashion, suggesting an inner personality that guides and directs behaviour

Question 3

What is Personality:

Major Theorists Definitions of Personality:

Allport

Answer 3

“the dynamic organization within the individual of those psychophysical systems that determine his or her unique adjustment to his or her environment”

Question 4

What is Personality:

Major Theorists Definitions of Personality:

Linton

Answer 4

“ Personality is the organized aggregate of psychological processes and states pertaining to the individual”

Question 5

What is Personality:

Major Theorists Definitions of Personality:

Cattell

Answer 5

“That which permits a prediction of what a person will do in a given situation”

Question 6

What is Personality:

Major Theorists Definitions of Personality:

McClelland

Answer 6

The most adequate conceptualization of a person’s behavior in all its detail that a scientist can give at a moment in time”

Question 7

What is Personality:

Major Theorists Definitions of Personality:

Guilford

Answer 7

“A person’s unique pattern of traits”

Question 8

What is Personality:

Major Theorists Definition of Personality:

Pervin

Answer 8

“Personality represents those characteristics of the person or of people generally that account for consistent patterns of behavior”