| 6. Some psychologists characterize personality through the use of traits, which are distinctive and stable attributes of people. Gordon Allport distinguished among cardinal traits, central traits, and secondary traits. Cardinal traits are so dominant that they are expressed in everything the person does. Most people have a small number of central traits that are developed by experience. Secondary traits are less important, situation specific traits. |
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