[Solved] Personal Dispositions

Assignment Prompt & Instructions

According to Allport's psychology of the individual, each person is unique and has a personality that grows and changes. He also believed everyone possesses personal dispositions, which he placed at different levels (cardinal, central, and secondary) based on their importance to a person. You can review these levels of dispositions on pp. 386–387 in Ch. 12 of _Theories of Personality_.

In this discussion, you explore how a historical figure embodies the 3 levels of personal dispositions. Select one of the individuals listed below as the focus for your response:

– Mahatma Gandhi
– Vincent Van Gogh
– Mother Teresa
– Abraham Lincoln
– Stephen Hawking
– Albert Einstein
– Martin Luther King Jr.
– Nelson Mandela
– Malcolm X
– Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
– Marie Curie

Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:

– Cardinal traits: What passions, goals, or obsessions are most dominant in your selected individual? How have these cardinal traits contributed to this individual’s motivations or accomplishments?
– Central traits: If you were to write a letter of recommendation for your selected individual, which traits would you emphasize?
– Secondary traits: Describe which of these individual’s traits the public may be aware of, but that are not fundamental to understanding this individual’s influence on society.
– How do you think this individual’s traits influenced his or her career choice?

– 2 years ago