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Metropolitan University Module Title: Personality and Social Psychology Module Code: PY1003C Compare and contrast idiographic and nomothetic approaches to the study of Personality. Michaela Strasikova Student number: 05048325 Number of words: 1021 The concept of personality is needed in psychology. There are many definitions and expressions of personality. Allport, 1961 identified it as: 'Personality is the dynamic organization, within the person, of psychophysical systems that create the person's characteristic patterns of behaviour, thoughts and feeling'. Prince, 1924 described personality as 'the sum of all the biological innate disposition, impulses, tendencies, appetites and instinct of the individual and the acquired dispositions and tendencies - acquired by experience'. Funder, 2004 understood this concept as follows: 'Personality refers to and individual's characteristic patterns of thought, emotion and behaviour together with the psychological mechanism - hidden or not - behind those patterns.' Nowadays, we can find two kinds of psychology concerned with personality, which are clinical psychology and academic...

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