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This 5 page paper explains Gordon Allport's personality theory. The writer outlines the different types of traits all people have and the importance of these in terms of the personality. The essay also explains Allport's functional autonomy and explains what he meant by proprium. The writer also comments on Allport's own experiences that influenced the development of his theories. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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because he believed psychoanalysis went too deep and behaviorism did not go deep enough (Boeree, 2006). He is a trait theorist (Boeree, 2006; Wilderdom, 2004). Allport identified different types of
traits that everyone has: * Individual: these are the traits that a single person has (Wilderdom, 2004). * Common: many people have these traits (Wilderdom, 2004). * Cardinal: this is
the trait that dominates a person (Wilderdom, 2004). * Central: this is a small number of traits that may affect the persons behaviors (Wilderdom, 2004). * Secondary: while these traits
are consistent, they are not necessarily displayed (Wilderdom, 2004). * Motivational: these are very strong traits the person feels (Wilderdom, 2004). * Stylistic: these traits are not felt as strongly
as the motivational traits (Wilderdom, 2004). Allport believed that what a person does is related to what the person is (Boeree, 2006). People behave in manners that demonstrate their own
selves; he called this "propriate functioning" (Boeree, 2006). The word is derived from the word Allport coined for the self, proprium (Boeree, 2006). The reason for this new word had
to do with Allports dissatisfaction with the many different definitions of self (Boeree, 2006). Boeree (2006) reports that Allport used both a phenomenological approach and a functional approach to define
proprium. Phenomenologically, proprium is the self "is composed of the aspects of your experiencing that you see as most essential . . . warm . . . and central"
(Boeree, 2006). The self, then, is not based on accidental experiences but the ones the person considers to be essential and those experiences were emotionally warm, not cool (Boeree, 2006).
The functional definition of proprium emerges as a type of developmental theory in that Allport identified seven specific functions of the self: Sense of Body; Self-identify; Self-esteem; Self-extension; Self-image; Rational
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