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stephzh

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In Allport's view, the healthy personality changes from being a biologically dominated organism in infancy to a mature psychological organism in adulthood.
 
  Indicate whether the statement is true or false.

Question 2

To Allport, infants receive sensory impressions from the external environment and react to them automatically and reflexively, with no ego to mediate between stimulus and response.
 
  Indicate whether the statement is true or false.


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Reply #1 on: Jun 21, 2018
Answer to Question 1

ANS: T
FEEDBACK: In Allport's view, the healthy personality changes and grows from being a biologically dominated organism in infancy to a mature psychological organism in adulthood. Our motivations become separated from childhood and are oriented toward the future.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: T
FEEDBACK: Before the proprium begins to emerge, the infant experiences no self-consciousness, no awareness of self. There is not yet a separation of me from everything else. Infants receive sensory impressions from the external environment and react to them automatically and reflexively, with no ego to mediate between stimulus and response.


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