Gordon Allport's Views on Healthy and Mature Personalities and Personality Traits

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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.

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Warm Relations with Others

Being able to be vulnerable with others, trust people, have empathy, and loving relationships.

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Emotional Security and Self Acceptance

Not being emotionally overreactive to stresses and accepting yourself for who you are.

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Realistic Perception

Having an accurate understanding of yourself, others, and the world, without extreme biases.

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Problem Centeredness

Having common sense and independence when facing everyday challenges.

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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.

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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.

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Traits (Allport's Definition)

Neuropsychic structures within a person that render different situations functionally equivalent for them.

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Neuropsychic Structures (Neuro Part)

Traits are partly about what's happening in the physical brain.

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Neuropsychic Structures (Psychic Part)

Traits are partly about, higher level cognitions.

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Traits Within the Person

Traits are something that in not outside of the person.

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Functional Equivalence

Traits cause individuals to behave similarly across different situations because the traits cause the individual to view those situations similarly.

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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.

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Plato's Theory of Personality (~400 BC)

Proposed that the mind (psyche or soul) is comprised of the logos, the thymos, and the eros.

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Logos (Plato)

Rational/logical component of the mind.

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Thymos (Plato)

Spirited component of the mind.

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Eros (Plato)

Appetitive component of the mind, about the pursuit of pleasure.

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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.

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Galen's Expansion of Hippocrates' Theory

Proposed personality types associated with imbalances of the four humors: phlegmatic, sanguine, choleric, and melancholic.

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Phlegmatic Personality

Lazy, sluggish, and not very emotionally reactive personality type.

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Sanguine Personality

Cheerful, happy, and easygoing personality type.

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Choleric Personality

Irritable, easily upset, and lashing out in anger personality type.

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Melancholic Personality

Sad, depressed, and Eeyore-like personality type.