10 Questions
What is one common definition of personality according to the text?
Personality is your effect upon other people.
How is personality associated with aggressiveness in popular views?
It is interpreted as a characteristic of aggressiveness.
What are some qualities that personality can be colloquially associated with?
Personal attractiveness, ability to withstand hardships, among others.
How do friends recognize each other according to the text?
By their manner of thinking, talking, and acting.
How do experts in art, music, and literature identify the works of well-known figures?
By style alone.
Define personality according to Kempf (1919).
The habitual mode of adjustment between egocentric drive and environmental exigencies.
How did Morton Prince (1924) define personality?
As the sum total of biological innate dispositions, impulses, tendencies, appetites, instincts, and acquired dispositions and tendencies.
According to Floyd Allport (1924), what are personality traits considered as?
Important dimensions in which people differ.
What is Gordon Allport's (1937) definition of personality?
The dynamic organization within the individual of psychophysical systems that determine unique adjustment to the environment.
How can personality be considered according to the text? Provide two perspectives.
In terms of stimulus value (effect on others) and in terms of responses (what the person actually does).
Explore popular definitions and views of personality, including its impact on others and stimulus value. Learn about the different meanings attached to the concept of personality in everyday conversation.
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