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

stimulus

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

forcefulness

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

qualities

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

<p>appearance</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>style</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>error</p> Signup and view all the answers

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 ______.”

<p>tendencies</p> Signup and view all the answers

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 ______.”

<p>differ</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>environment</p> Signup and view all the answers

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 ______).

<p>does</p> Signup and view all the answers

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