Exam 13: Mccrae and Costas Five Factor Trait Theory

"Any acquired system of motivation in which the tensions involved are not of the same kind as the antecedent tensions from which the acquired system developed" is Allport's definition of

When Allport was a young man, he spent a year teaching in Europe.On his return trip home, he visited with his brother Fayette and had a memorable meeting with

Research indicates that people who score high on the Intrinsic scale of the Religious Orientation Scale (and thus are more involved in their religion) tend to

The Religious Orientation Scale (ROS) assumes both ______ and ______ orientation toward religion.

With regard to freedom and determinism, Allport held

Because Allport believed that a personality theory must be broad enough to encompass the growing, evolving individual as well as the static, adjustive person, he advocated the ______ approach to theory building.

Allport believed that psychoanalytic and learning theories

According to Allport, any symptom that cannot be extinguished through psychotherapy, or does not change as self-concept changes, is

Allport's approach to science emphasizes which methods?

The most distinctive or "capstone" concept of Allport's theory of motivation is the concept of

Paige's factor analysis of the letters from Jenny revealed

According to Allport, present motives are functionally autonomous to the extent that they

With regard to traits, Allport held that they

Those behaviors and characteristics that one regards as central to one's life are said by Allport to belong to the

Personal dispositions that are not central to personality, yet occur with some regularity and are responsible for much of one's specific behaviors, Allport termed ______ dispositions.

According to Allport's definition, personal dispositions

Examples of Allport's completely morphogenic methods include all the following EXCEPT

Allport and Odbert found about ______ personally descriptive words in a standard dictionary.

Allport used Jenny's letters to support his view that personality

Allport's master system of motivation that confers unity on personality is called