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What was Gordon Allport's major when he received his bachelor's degree in 1919?
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Who did Gordon Allport meet with in Vienna, an encounter that greatly influenced his later ideas on personality?
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Study Notes
Dispositional Theories: Allport
- Gordon Allport, a prominent personality theorist, emphasized the uniqueness of individuals and opposed trait and factor theories that reduce individual behaviors to common traits.
Overview of Allport's Psychology of the Individual
- Allport referred to individual studies as morphogenic (single) science, contrasting them with nomothetic (group) methods.
- He advocated for an eclectic approach to theory building, accepting contributions from various psychologists, including Freud, Maslow, Rogers, Eysenck, and Skinner.
- Allport argued against particularism and warned against neglecting aspects of human nature in a single theory.
Biography of Gordon Allport
- Gordon Willard Allport was born on November 11, 1897, in Montezuma, Indiana.
- His father, John E. Allport, was a physician who turned the household into a miniature hospital.
- Gordon Allport developed an interest in philosophical and religious questions at the age of 6.
- He graduated second in his high school class of 100 in 1915.
- Allport entered Harvard in 1915, following in the footsteps of his brother Floyd.
- He received his bachelor's degree in 1919 with a major in philosophy and economics.
- In 1919-1920, Allport taught English and sociology at Robert College in Istanbul, Turkey.
- In 1920, Allport met with Sigmund Freud in Vienna, which greatly influenced his later ideas on personality.
Allport's Approach to Personality Theory
- Allport defined personality as the dynamic organization within an individual of psychophysical systems that determine their unique adjustments to their environment (1937).
- He later revised the definition to "the dynamic organization within an individual of those psychophysical systems that determine their unique and characteristic behavior and thought" (1961).
- Allport traced the word persona back to early Greek roots and spelled out 49 definitions of personality across various fields.
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Explore Gordon Allport's theories on personality and individuality, rejecting trait and factor approaches in favor of a unique, eclectic perspective. Learn about his contributions to psychology and contrasting views on nomothetic and morphogenic methods.
