Lecture 9

Question 1

Allport and Murray emphasized the complexity of…

Answer 1

personality
- Allport believ ed we should study normal personality believed healthy funtion needed to be studied not neurotic

Question 2

Allport believed what about personality

Answer 2

It exist and its a concrete structure that exist in the brain

Question 3

Allport defined traits as…

Answer 3

a determining tendency or predisposition to respond to the world in certain ways; consistent and enduring, they account for consistency in human behavior

Question 4

Common traits

Answer 4

hypothetical constructs that permit us to make comparisons bw individuals within a given culture

Question 5

Cardinal traits

Answer 5

so pervasive they influence almost every behavior of individual; practically define their life
ex; scrooge (greed)

Question 6

Central traits

Answer 6

highly characteristic of individual

Question 7

Proprium (Allport)

Answer 7

Central expereinces of self-awarness that people have as they grow and move forward

Question 8

Functional autonomy

Answer 8

(Allport)
- implies that adults motivation is not necessarily tied to the past. Your motives today are independent (autonomous) of their origins.
- why you wanted to be come a doc doesnt matter you are now

Question 9

perseverative functional autonomy

Answer 9

refers essentially to habits– behaviors that no longer serve their original purpose, but still continue.
– reason you started smoking for example

Question 10

Propriate functional autonomy

Answer 10

something a bit more self-directed than habits
– vales as an example

Question 11

A need

Answer 11

(Henry Murray)
- a force in the brain that organizes our perception, understanding and beahavior in such a way as to lead us to change an unsatisfying situation and increase our satisfaction (aroused by internalt state (hunger) and external stimuli (Food))

Question 12

A press

Answer 12

(Henry Murray)
- a contextual or situational pressure that influence personality and its expression

Question 13

Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)

Answer 13

(Henry Murray)
- a projective device in which a person makes up a story for ambiguous pictures
- atories interpreted in terms of needs, press and thema
-murrays most enduring contribution
-project their underlying needs onto cards and potential conflicts
- Extensively used, limited eidence poor reliability
(look at power point 9)

Question 14

apperception

Answer 14

refers to process of projecting fantasy imaginary onto an objective stimuli