Scientific Study of Personality: Definitions and Views
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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?

<p>By their manner of thinking, talking, and acting.</p> Signup and view all the answers

How do experts in art, music, and literature identify the works of well-known figures?

<p>By style alone.</p> Signup and view all the answers

Define personality according to Kempf (1919).

<p>The habitual mode of adjustment between egocentric drive and environmental exigencies.</p> Signup and view all the answers

How did Morton Prince (1924) define personality?

<p>As the sum total of biological innate dispositions, impulses, tendencies, appetites, instincts, and acquired dispositions and tendencies.</p> Signup and view all the answers

According to Floyd Allport (1924), what are personality traits considered as?

<p>Important dimensions in which people differ.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is Gordon Allport's (1937) definition of personality?

<p>The dynamic organization within the individual of psychophysical systems that determine unique adjustment to the environment.</p> Signup and view all the answers

How can personality be considered according to the text? Provide two perspectives.

<p>In terms of stimulus value (effect on others) and in terms of responses (what the person actually does).</p> Signup and view all the answers

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