Question

After describing herself to the personnel director during a job interview, Jane added that she liked to attend formal affairs. According to Allport, this preference is an example of a _________ trait.

Answer 1

According to Allport, this preference is an example of a Secondary trait

Explanation:

There are 3 types of traits.

1. Cardinal traits:

• This is the dominating traits
• The person can be found by the qualities

2. Secondary traits:

• This is closely related to attitudes

• This is also related to preferences of a human

• This would differ from person to person

• This might change according to the situation.

3. Central traits:

• This forms the base for the personality development
• This would be meaningful
• Central traits can be polite, helping, anxiety, etc.

Answer 2

After describing herself to the personnel director during a job interview, Jane added that she liked to attend formal affairs. According to Gordon Allport, this preference is an example of a Secondary Traits

Explanation:

Traits Can be defined as a characteristic or the way in which a person behaves such as such as extra-version–introversion ,an individual can  fall in any point of  the continuum, and it is where they fall determines how they will respond in various contexts.

Gordon Allport has divided  traits into a hierarchy of three types:

1. Cardinal traits
2. Central traits
3. Secondary traits.

Secondary traits explains the reason why some individuals  exhibits behavior which at times seems to be inconsistent with their usual behaviors .The secondary traits includes things like preferences and attitude of a person

For example, a friendly person gets angry when somebody  tries  to tickle him.