(a) Why didn’t Allport reply calmly (and perhaps with a friendly smile), “No, it was a boy I saw on the tram car on the way to your offi ce”? What does defensive behavior suggest about that...

(a) Why didn’t Allport reply calmly (and perhaps with a friendly smile), “No, it was a boy I saw on the tram car on the way to your offi ce”? What does defensive behavior suggest about that individual’s personality? How might these personality characteristics have infl uenced Allport to devise a theory that stresses the conscious and concrete aspects of personality? (b) Although young children can behave in highly unsocialized ways (and provoke considerable parental irritation), it would never occur to me to describe my daughter in this way. What might Allport’sstatement imply concerning his feelings about children in general? How might these feelings have infl uenced him to devise a theory of personality that rejects the importance of events in infancy and early childhood?