Understanding Personality: Popular Definitions

Personality is often described as your effect upon other people, indicating your high ______ value.

An individual with a weak personality may be easily imposed upon and lack ______.

Personality can also imply personal attractiveness, the ability to withstand hardships, and other specific ______.

Friends can be recognized by their manner of thinking, talking, and acting, as much as by their physical ______.

Experts in the fields of art, music, and literature can often identify the works of well-known figures by their ______ alone.

The scientific concept of personality has been work out to some extent by trial and ______.

Morton Prince (1924) – “personality is the sum total of all the biological innate dispositions, impulses, tendencies, appetites, and instincts of the individual, and the acquired disposition and ______.”

Floyd Allport (1924) –This seems too much inclusive “personality traits may be considered as so many important dimensions in which people may be found to ______.”

Gordon Allport (1937) – personality is the 'dynamic organization within the individual of those psychophysical systems that determine his unique adjustment to this ______.'

Definitions in terms of Stimulus and Response: We can consider personality in terms of two groups: one, in terms of the stimulus value (the effect one has on others) and those that consider it in terms of responses (what the person actually ______).