The Trait Perspective – Pages 613 – 622 (8e)
Pages 493-503 (AP*)
Answer the following questions in your notebook. The notebooks will be checked.
1. How did Allport differ from Freud?
2. What did Allport mean when he said “psychologists would do well to give full recognition to manifest motives
before probing the unconscious?”
3. Critical thinking: After reading about “Exploring Traits” and “Factor Analysis”, What are some values and risks
that accompany the utilization of traits to describe people?
4. Detail the contributions of Eysenck and Eysenck in the field of personality psychology.
5. Explain the various ways that biology can affect our personality.
6. What is the MMPI, and what are the pros and cons of the MMPI?
7. (REFER TO THE CHART IN YOUR BOOK AND ON THE BOTTOM OF THIS HANDOUT. YOU NEED TO KNOW THESE
TRAITS, AS WELL AS THE ENDPOINTS OF EACH DIMENSION.)
8. Note the strengths of this method of studying personality.
9. Explain (not just define) the person-situation controversy with details and examples.
10. Describe the contributions of Mischel and Epstein to personality and the person-situation controversy.
11. How do you feel about Gosling’s findings regarding our traits, and how much people can understand about us
based on music, personal spaces and web pages? Do his findings support your own experience in these areas?
12. Detail the findings of expressiveness, and explain whether you would choose to be an expressive or inexpressive
person if you had the choice. Why?