personality
for Gordon Allport, "the dynamic organization within the individual of those psychophysical systems that determine his unique adjustments to the environment" (p.130)
temperament
innate emotional aspects of personality (p.131)
trait
a characteristic of a person that makes a person unique, with a unique style of adapting to stimuli in the world (p.132)
individual trait
a trait that characterizes only the one person who has it (i.e., a trait considered from the ideographic point of view) (p.132)
common trait
a trait characterizing many people (i.e., a trait considered from the nomothetic point of view) (p.132)
unique trait
a trait that only one person has (also called individual trait) (p.132)
expressive traits
traits concerned with the style or tempo of a person's behavior (p.133)
central trait
one of the half dozen or so traits that best describe a particular person (p.135)
secondary trait
a trait that influences a limited range of behaviors (p.135)
cardinal trait
a pervasive personality trait that dominates nearly everything a person does (p.135)
functional autonomy
a trait's independence of its developmental origins (p.136)
unifying philosophy of life
an attitude or set of values, often religious, that gives coherence and meaning to life (p.137)
unitas multiplex
the Latin phrase indicating that a person makes a unified whole out of many diverse aspects of personality (p.137)
proprium
all aspects of a person that make for unity; a person's sense of self or ego (p.137)
ego- extensions
objects or people that help define a person's identity or sense of self (p.138)
rational coper
a stage in middle childhood in which problem-solving ability is important to one's sense of self (p.138)
propriate striving
effort based on a sense of selfhood or identity (p.138)
self as knower
a stage in adulthood in which a person integrates the self into a unified whole (p.138)
extrinsic religious orientation
attitude in which religion is seen as a means to a person's other goals (such as status or security) (p.138)
intrinsic religious orientation
attitude in which religion is accepted for its own sake rather than as a means to an end (p.139)
quest orientation
religious orientation that seeks answers to existential-religious questions (p.139)
jackdaw eclecticism
considering concepts from diverse theories, without making careful selection from and evaluation of these concepts (p. 143)