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Flashcards on Gordon Allport's views and personality traits including historical context.
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Capacity for Self Extension
Realizing the world is more than just you; caring about others and the world.
Warm Relations with Others
Being able to be vulnerable with others, trust people, have empathy, and loving relationships.
Emotional Security and Self Acceptance
Not being emotionally overreactive to stresses and accepting yourself for who you are.
Realistic Perception
Having an accurate understanding of yourself, others, and the world, without extreme biases.
Problem Centeredness
Having common sense and independence when facing everyday challenges.
Self Objectification
Being able to look at oneself objectively without positive or negative bias, evaluating yourself from a third-person point of view; boils down to self insight and humor.
Unifying Philosophy of Life
Having a belief system or framework of values that helps you understand the world, your place in it, and your connection to others; provides a sense of purpose and morality.
Traits (Allport's Definition)
Neuropsychic structures within a person that render different situations functionally equivalent for them.
Neuropsychic Structures (Neuro Part)
Traits are partly about what's happening in the physical brain.
Neuropsychic Structures (Psychic Part)
Traits are partly about, higher level cognitions.
Traits Within the Person
Traits are something that in not outside of the person.
Functional Equivalence
Traits cause individuals to behave similarly across different situations because the traits cause the individual to view those situations similarly.
Functional Autonomy of Acquired Motives
The reason people are doing things today is often different from the reason they started doing it in the first place.
Plato's Theory of Personality (~400 BC)
Proposed that the mind (psyche or soul) is comprised of the logos, the thymos, and the eros.
Logos (Plato)
Rational/logical component of the mind.
Thymos (Plato)
Spirited component of the mind.
Eros (Plato)
Appetitive component of the mind, about the pursuit of pleasure.
Hippocrates' Theory of Medicine
Proposed that all disease is about the four humors (fluids) in the body being out of balance and his medical treatments focused on reattaining balance.
Galen's Expansion of Hippocrates' Theory
Proposed personality types associated with imbalances of the four humors: phlegmatic, sanguine, choleric, and melancholic.
Phlegmatic Personality
Lazy, sluggish, and not very emotionally reactive personality type.
Sanguine Personality
Cheerful, happy, and easygoing personality type.
Choleric Personality
Irritable, easily upset, and lashing out in anger personality type.
Melancholic Personality
Sad, depressed, and Eeyore-like personality type.