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    April 19‚ 1999 Allport’s theory of traits 2 Abstract This paper reviews Gordon Allport’s theory of traits as well as two of his studies‚ “Personality Traits”‚ 1921 and “Letters from Jenny”‚ 1966. His theory‚ which is based more on his view of human nature than on research‚ distinguishes between common traits and individual traits‚ with emphasis on the individual traits. The two studies illustrate how Allport applies the theory in his research. Finally the paper concludes that although

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    ALLPORT ’S EARLY YEARS Gordon Allport was born in Montezuma‚ Indiana‚ in 1897‚ the youngest of four brothers. As a shy boy‚ he was teased and lived an isolated childhood. (Oloson/Sihed p191) His father was a country doctor‚ and this meant that his father ’s patients were always in the house. Everyone in his house worked hard. His early life seemed to be pleasant and uneventful. What is known about his life is Allport received his PH.D. in Psychology in 1922 from Harvard‚ following in

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    Tevarious Jones Karen Putman Social Psychology and Human Nature Prejudice 21 December 2012 Prejudice Many people in society today have the mindset that being prejudice is wrong‚ especially as it relates to skin color and ethnicity. Social Psychology and Human Nature book describes prejudice as “an act of a wicked culture” (Roy F. Baumeister‚ Brad J. Bushman p.402). Jim Cole’s description is: “Prejudices will be dealt with here as a single set of dynamics that function to dehumanize people

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    The Allport-Vernon Study of Values (1931) categorizes values into six major types as follows: 1. Theoretical: Interest in the discovery of truth through reasoning and systematic thinking. 2. Economic: Interest in usefulness and practicality‚ including the accumulation of wealth. 3. Aesthetic: Interest in beauty‚ form and artistic harmony. 4. Social: Interest in people and human relationships. 5. Political: Interest in gaining power and influencing other people. 6. Religious:

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    people have a set of different combination of trait‚ it consider unique when define a person. It used to identify and measure individual personality characteristic. Gordon Allport was the first psychologist who uses trait approach into personality. He found that trait was the most appropriate theory to describe personal behavioural. Allport had declared trait theory into three levels‚ which is cardinal trait‚ central trait and secondary trait. Cardinal trait use to reflect a person personality by his

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    Value theory PDF The Allport-Vernon Study of Values (SOV) is one of the earliest‚ theoretically well-grounded questionnaires measuring personal values on the basis of declared behavioral preferences. The SOV was first published in 1931 by G. W. Allport and P. E. Vernon (1931) and later revised in 1970 by Allport‚ Vernon‚ and G. Lindzey (1970). It is a psychological tool designed to measure personal preferences of six types of values: theoretical‚ economic‚ aesthetic‚ social‚ political‚ and religious

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    of the many different notions of personality offered by theologians‚ philosophers‚ poets‚ sociologists‚ and psychologists‚ and concluded that an adequate synthesis of existing definitions might be expressed in the phrase "what a man really is" ? Allport defines personality as the “the dynamic organization within the individual of those psychophysical systems that determine his unique adjustments to the environment.” Dynamic Organization--an active‚ integrative‚ developmental process—changing while

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    POSSİBLE TO REMOVE PREJUDİCES Prejudice means the attitude toward the members of some group based solely on their membership in that group and it can be positive or negative. The main reason of prejudice is most probably stereotyping and it involves generalizations about the typical characteristics of members of the groups. Prejudice is ubiquitous and it affects all of us and it sometimes cause negative consequences. Hence‚ many people search works or studies to remove prejudice effects.We also

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    Define Values. Critically evaluate “Allport-Vernon” classification of values. How values affectthe business processes. Values represent basic convictions that “a specific mode of conduct or end-state of existence is personally or socially preferable to an opposite or converse mode of conduct orend-state of existence” (Rokeach‚ 1973). When the values are ranked in terms of theirintensity‚ i.e.‚ when the value are prioritized in terms of their intensity‚ it is called valuesystem. Types of values

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    Prejudice is an inevitable aspect of social life Prejudice not only affects individuals or whole groups of people‚ but it may concern entire cultures and their respective behaviours towards other societies. There is plenty of evidence which confirms the presence of prejudice from the past to the present day. The demolition of the Roman Amphitheatre in Pula‚ Croatia‚ during the 13th century is a good example. For instance‚ when the Venetians ruled Croatia‚ they took most of the stones which formed

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