After filling out a personality test, students are given individual personality profiles. Most state that their profiles are fai
rly good descriptions of themselves, and they are amazed to discover that they had all received the same profile. This illustrates one of the main criticisms of the ____ approach. psychodynamic
trait
cognitive behavioral
humanistic psychology
The trait approach theory was first given by Gordon Allport in the 1930s. It is also called a trait theory of leadership. In the beginning, there was found about 4500 traits that were later combined and finalized into three categories.
Central traits
Cardinal traits
Secondary traits
The trait theory has been criticizing because this theory has very little generalization results in their traits theory as not applicable to most of the great leaders. This theory focuses on the leadership but not on the situation.