Gordon Allport

There many personality theories that can be related to the film Divergent. Two of which are Alfred Alder’s theory of individual psychology, looking specifically at striving for superiority and Gordon Allport’s trait theory. Personality is the “organization of a person’s character, temperament, intellect, and physique, which determines his unique adjustment to the environment” (Eysenck, 1970). These two theories examine how personality develops and features of an individual or group’s personality. Alfred Alder’s personality theory placed a major emphasis on a person’s social involvement, known as individual psychology (Drapela, 1987). The basics of Adler’s theory is that man is motivated by social urges. Relating himself to others, engaging in cooperative social activities, placing social welfare above self-interests and acquiring a social lifestyle (Hall & Lindzey, 1970). Each of these features is in Divergent’s community. As within factions, people are motivated by community desires, engage in activities together and place the welfare…

Gordon Allport is thought to be one of the founding fathers of personality psychology. Allport had many noticeable achievements throughout his life and most have affected the field of psychology as a whole. He had many famous publications, methodological contributions, and even developed his own theories. Allport has trained many students over the years and spent a great deal of time teaching and mentoring others. He has been the head of departments and presidents to specific organizations…

One of Gordon Allport’s important concepts included functional autonomy. Functional autonomy is “where people begin a behavior, such as reading, because they have to, but continue the habit later because it has become enjoyable” (Grand Canyon University, 2015). Additionally, I do think that Allport’s concept of functional autonomy has its truths behind it. Specifically, an instance in my life where functional autonomy presented itself was when I was a child and I did not like to read. I did not…

“Without words we should scarcely be able to form categories at all” (324). If we weren’t able to speak then people wouldn’t be labeled or subjected to a category. In Gordon Allport 's “Language of Prejudice”, he states that labels subjects a person to one aspect of their appearance. A person shouldn’t be looked at as being in a group but as an individual, everyone is different. Once a individual is given a label, that’s what overlooks every other feature an individual may have. When we look at…

“The Language of Prejudice” by Gordon Allport is an informative description of the usage of judgments and stereotypes that people do not realize how often they use. The categories of these discriminations correlate to the discrimination that American pregnant and parenting teens receive. Unjust discrimination against pregnant and parenting teens has continued to rise, in education and religious settings. Pregnant and parenting teens are being discriminated against due to the fact of their age…

Case Study: Allport and Monica Gordon Allport was an evolutionary scientist who explored previously untouched concepts to better understand the human condition. He developed a combination of new terminology and progressive ideas that formed the basis of his view on personality. He advanced the discontinuity theory which suggest that during development an organism experiences genuine transformations or changes (Engler, p. 239). Whether Monica of our case study would agree with this contradictory…

his journey trying to answer questions on the Behavioral Conditioning Level. For example, when he attempts to learn how to apply skills he learned in a past life to a new environment in a new life. In Bailey’s life with Ethan he had learned to pull Ethan out from under the water and in a later life as the German Shephered named Ellie, he must learn how to apply that skill to serve the purpose of saving people from drowning. His reactions change depending what situation he finds himself in, he is…

The Dark Knight was the second of a trilogy of the Batman movie series directed by Christopher Nolan. The movie promise to be one to be remember and as others might say an iconic movie for what superheroes and/or future Batman movies should be. The Dark Knight movie was released in July 2008, and for the comic book/superheroes fans that have not seen it I can only tell you one thing: go see it. It was produced by the well-known Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. who are known for producing movies…

in General elections. To be specific, statistics from the campaign of March 2015, shows that the Conservative party was better attracting Ukip voters whereas, In addition the Conservative party were successful in attracting more Lib Dem voters that are formally left-wing than Labour (Green, J and Posser, C). Many Ukip voters previously voted for the Conservative party, one could then theorise, that many Ukip voters were inclined to switch to the Conservative party, as they not only share similar…

them, he felt the need to serve his own justice. This is an example of his power getting a little out of hand. Most of the time he keeps his personal vendettas out of his plans. He is praised and loved by the citizens of Gotham and it was imperative that he didn’t let all the noise and expectations get to his head. He used his power for good, not evil. As a symbol of justice, he wanted people to accept him and agree with his role as a vigilante. Bruce did a great job of keeping his personal life…