intro to personality

Cards (3)

  • Gordon Allport (1937) personality definition

    "a dynamic organisation inside the person, of a psychophysical systems that create the person's characteristics patterns of behaviour, thoughts and feelings'
  • Kluckhohn and Murray (1953) - ways to measure personality 

    like all other people
    idiographic (like no others):
    • focuses on unique psychological structure
    • based on individuals experience
    nomothetic (like some people):
    • people classified into groups based on personality
    • pre defined traits
  • What drives personality?
    unconscious forces
    ego forces