EDUCATION UGC NET
PSYCHOLOGY
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Ross Stagner
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Allport and Odbert
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R. B. Cattell
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Coasta and McCrae
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Detailed explanation-1: -In 1936 Gordon Allport and Henry Odbert used the lexical hypothesis to conduct one of the most important and seminal studies in personality psychology. They used the dictionary to identify nearly 18, 000 terms that described personality, behaviors, and traits.
Detailed explanation-2: -The lexical approach is based on the assumption that the most important personality traits are encoded as words in natural languages and that the analysis of the structure of those words may lead to a scientifically acceptable personality model.
Detailed explanation-3: -Allport states that the personality of a person is the single most unique thing about a person. One of his early projects was to go through the dictionary and locate every term that he thought could describe a person. From this, he developed a list of 4500 trait-like words.
Detailed explanation-4: -Gordon Allport was one of the first researchers to come up with a trait theory. His main idea was that personality came about like a series of building blocks; referred to here, of course, as traits. He further believed that personality was biologically determined but could be shaped by someone’s environment.