Trait (Allport)

Trait (Allport)

A) is a permanent entity that does not fade in and out like state; it is inborn or develops during the life course and regularly directs behavior
B) is represented as a statistical factor and defined as a theoretical construct based on observed intercorrelations between a number of different habitual responses
C) is a construct referring to processes that convert an unsatisfying situation into a satisfying one though activations of appropriate actones
D) is a neuropsychic structure having the capacity to render many stimuli functionally equivalent, and to initiate and guide equivalent (meaningfully consistent) forms of adaptive and expressive behavior