ABSTRACT
The behaviorist usually likes to discard psychological words that have no precise meaning and that are so laden down by bad history, but through some perversity of his nature he is trying to keep the term personality because it does fit so beautifully into his general psychological system. If the person studying the personality of another were free from slants and if accurate allowance could be made for the effects of his own past habit systems, he would be able to make an objective study. Personality changes most rapidly in youth when habit patterns are forming, maturing and changing. The real observer of personality tries to keep himself out of the picture and to observe the other individual in an objective way. In many of the so-called psychopathological disorders there are no organic disturbances of sufficient gravity to account for personality disturbance.
