Individual psychology
Gordon Allport proposes that prejudice is a prejudgment of a person because of their real or perceived company. According to his philosophy, when we identify with cultures around us we reduce negative judgment towards fellow humans. He suggests that we have personal dispositions that determine how we understand people’s behavior (George, 2020). If we are more disposed to different cultures we are more likely to reduce our prejudgment about how others behave or should behave around us.
Idiographic approaches differ from nomothetic in the sense of how they investigate individuals. Idiographic methods focus on what makes us different from others whereas nomothetic looks at what makes us the same (Crossman, 2019). Furthermore, nomothetic approaches suggest that we have a common basic structure upon which our personalities can be measured. However, idiographic approaches base its assumption in understanding the individual properties of the self. The big five factors theory does not have much to offer to research because it is not fully orthogonal. The five factors in the theory cannot compound statistically and by that it limits research.
According to Eysenck, we all inherited our nervous system which predisposes our personality and behavior. Personality is described as psychophysical systems that determine behavior and thoughts. State theories such as social learning theories attribute personality to the immediate environment interacting with the individual. However, trait theories of personality suggest that a person’s behavior and thoughts are largely influenced by their biology. Han’s used factor analysis to group together behavior effectively being able to create a categorization based on his model dimension. There is much that goes into making a person. Nature and nurture interact to bring the development of individual psychology.