DISPOSITIONAL, BIOLOGICAL, OR

EVOLUTIONARY THEORIES PRESENTATION

PSY 405
Team Assignment
By: Cathy Snowden, Bernice Joe, Abigail
Zaleski, and Mayetta Anderson

ALLPORTS THEORY EFFECTS

INDIVIDUAL PERSONALITY
Allports Dispositional personality affect
every one in different ways, by having
personality trait and emotions, emotions
being the general concept to people or
certain situation, the response to this
emotions can be negative or positive.
A positive response could be love , anger,
hate, fear, jealousy, sadness.
An individuals strengths of emotions can
stem his level of disposition affect.
Dispositional affect is also different from
mood which mood relate to the general
feeling that basically is trained to diffuse and
not focus on a specific cause or object.
On the positive disposition effect, it has
given us the way to see the world in good
light, as for the negative disposition effect it
gives us the way to see the world in a dark
light.

INDIVIDUAL PERSONALITY
THEORY

Strengths

Relied heavily on
objective and statistical
data
Unbiased compared to
other theories
Thoroughly described
each trait (Feist, 2013)

Weaknesses

Poor predictor of the

future
Does not address
developing traits
Does not explain a way to
change bad traits (Feist,
2013)

TRAIT AND FACTOR THEORY

Strengths

Validated with lots of

research
Many others have used it
to develop assessment
tools

Weaknesses
Can not predict human
behavior
Can not explain how
personality traits develop
Doesn't take into
consideration
lifestyle/environmental
changes per individual

CONCLUSION

Allport's approached personalities with open-minded concepts

and supportive materials. Allports Personal dispositions helped
researchers to study individuality. Allports objective was to find
answers to the questions; What is a personality? What is the role of
conscious motivation in personality? What are the
characteristics of the psychologically healthy person? Human
functioning is a product of mutual interaction of environmental
events, behavior, and personal factors (Feist & Feist, 2013).
Personalities are both psychological and physical. People have the
abilities to learn at a flexible capacity even though people have
differences biologically and socially. Personalities make the
person, the environment and societal factors determines the
development and maintenance of personalities. The most important
factor to consider; no two people are the same and every human on
the planet is unique in his own way.

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