Cardinal Traits: extremely pervasive in a person's life .
Central Dispositions: a few traits that stand out in a person .
Secondary Dispositions: less salient characteristics-may operate in only limited settings.
Explanation:
With the help of cardinal trust, we can organizes an individual life. The cardinal trait of Mother Theresa is self-sacrifice. Each individual have both central ans secondary traits but cardinal traits plays the main role. The cardinal traits are very easy to observe but the secondary traits are very limited in occurrence.
The functional autonomy is the important part of Allport's theory. The functional autonomy provides the activity which ends itself forgetting the reason for its existence. This theory allows for different types of motives to achieve the goal.
