Psy 250 Wk 3 Discussion Allport’S Personality Theory

Post a total of 3 substantive responses over 2 separate days for full participation. This includes your initial post and 2 replies to classmates or your faculty member. Due Thursday According to Allport's trait theory, all people are unique, with personalities that grow and differ. To demonstrate this, he designated personality traits into three tiers: cardinal, central, and secondary. Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words: • Select one of the renowned individuals from the list below and using the UOP Library only for your research, (no facebook, blogs, wikipedia, or similar) construct a profile of the individual by illustrating how they embody the three tiers of personality traits. • Cardinal traits: What are the passions, goals, or obsessions that are most dominant in this person? How have they contributed to this person’s motivations or accomplishments? • Central traits: If you were to write a letter of recommendation for this person, which traits would you emphasize? • Secondary traits: Describe traits the public may be aware of, but that are not fundamental to understanding this person’s impact. • Do you agree or disagree with Allport’s belief that psychoanalysis and/or behavioral theories are not enough to describe this person’s personality? Why or why not? Use APA guidelines to cite any outside reference sources used. Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Alfred Adler, Karen Horney, Harry Stack Sullivan, Sandra Bern, John Bowlby, Mary Ainsworth, Carl Rogers, John Watson, Ivan Pavlov, B.F. Skinner, George Kelly, Albert Bandura, Walter Mischel, Gordon Allport, Raymond Cattell, Hans Eysenck, Abraham Lincoln, Jonas Salk, Pablo Picasso, Leonardo Da Vinci, Cleopatra, Marie Curie, Abraham Lincoln, Benjamin Franklin, Mikhail Gorbachev, Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King, William Shakespeare, Muhammad Ali, Helen Keller, Rosa Parks, Mother Teresa, Winston Churchill, Mahatma Gandhi, Florence Nightingale, Socrates, Jane Goodall, Anne Frank, Galileo, George Orwell, Harriet Tubman, Swami Vivekananda, Confucius, Mozart, John Keats, Eleanor Roosevelt, Louis Pasteur, Charles Darwin, C.S. Lewis, Sophie Scholl, Oprah Winfrey, Sir Isaac Newton, Thurgood Marshall, Desmond Tutu, Jesse Owens, Abbe Pierre, Eva Peron, Sir Titus Salt, Malala Yousafzai, Leo Tolstoy, Queen Elizabeth, Sojourner Truth, Jane Austen, Susan B Anthony, and Jonas Salk.