Psy405 Week4 Personality Analysis

Personality Analysis

Dispositional and Learning

Dispositional and Learning Personality Analysis

The analysis of human personalities helps give one a better understanding of human behaviors and the processes in which individuals learn. Theorists have worked non-stop for many years trying to discover new theoretical approaches in this aspect of psychology. Gordon Allport studied the personalities of individuals because he was searching for a more functional way to define individuality and uniqueness of individuals (Feist & Feist, 2009). To define people as a group, general traits among the group are studied, but to know an individual, one must study that person’s traits as an individual to understand the inner workings of that person.

No two people are the same because of individuality, which is seen in one’s personality, disposition, and learning style. Albert Bandura’s social cognitive theory observes how people learn. Observational learning explains how people learn by watching others instead of that person performing the tasks or actions required (Feist & Feist, 2009). Individuals do learn from one’s own experiences but knowledge is also gained from observing actions and tasks performed by other individuals. The most important factors that answer question involving how one learns can be found within the studies of research and development.

Dispositional Theories and Personalities

Allport introduced morphogenic science to his research of individual psychology. Morphogenic science is the process of studying an individual, gathering the information and important data about the individual, and using the information in a meaningful manner to understand the individual from the ground up (Feist & Feist, 2009). The individual patterns are used as the subject matter in morphogenic science, which means the more details one receives, the better it is for the person conducting the study (Feist & Feist, 2009). Allport’s...