Author Question: According to Allport, traits are inconsistent and transient ways of reacting to our genetic ... (Read 233 times)

mynx · **on:** Jun 21, 2018

According to Allport, traits are inconsistent and transient ways of reacting to our genetic heritage.

Indicate whether the statement is true or false.

Question 2

Allport believed that psychoanalysis probed too deeply into the unconscious and that more attention needed to be focused on conscious or visible motivations.

Indicate whether the statement is true or false.

karmakat49 · **Reply #1 on:** Jun 21, 2018

Answer to Question 1

ANS: F
FEEDBACK: Allport considered personality traits to be predispositions to respond, in the same or a similar manner, to different kinds of stimuli. In other words, traits are consistent and enduring ways of reacting to our environment.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: T
FEEDBACK: Allport suspected that psychoanalysis probed the unconscious too deeply, as Freud tried to do with him. Psychology, Allport decided, should pay more attention to conscious or visible motivations. This was the path he chose for his study of personality.