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Exploring Personality Units: Insights on Traits, Motives, and Cognitions

Dive into the integration of personality units through discussions on motives, cognitive processes, and traits to understand behavior and structure. Explore the three levels of personality and their influences. Discover the importance of contextualizing personality beyond traits.

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Exploring Personality Units: Insights on Traits, Motives, and Cognitions

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  1. Integration of Units

  2. Group Activity 8A: Units • Which unit (motive, cognitive, trait) do you like the best and why? • Which unit is best suited for: • Understanding structure (why?) • Predicting behavior (why?)

  3. Motives, Cognitions & Traits • Which unit? • is primary & explains others? • is most useful for predicting behavior? • is easiest to measure? • All important & add different information • Structure • Process • Development/change

  4. McAdams • Traits are important but not enough • Also need less decontextualized features like motives & personal strivings • Personality consists of 3 levels (realms) • Different kinds of individual differences exist at different levels • I? II? III? • Different structure, process, development at each level

  5. Group Activity 8B: McAdams • What do you think the relationship among levels is? Why? • Which level units are most influential in your day to day life/behavior? • III equally important for all cultures? Why? • Do you think we need 3 levels? Explain.

  6. McAdams • To fully know a person is to know them at all 3 (& perhaps more) levels • Personality is more contextualized & temporal than traits allow • Integration eventually

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