ABSTRACT
Psychologists have been accustomed to define three modalities of traits, namely, cognitive or ability traits, temperament or stylistic traits, and dynamic traits. The word 'dynamic', of course, conveys this very meaning by its derivation from the Greek term for 'power'. An attitude is thus classical stimulus-response unit, defined more exactly below. But these single attitudes are the individual bricks in the house of the total dynamic structure. The real distinctions, in the seven or so components, are among dynamic sources of interest strength, and as far as these are concerned each involves some misperception devices and some other kinds of device. The form of the test presentation is relatively simple and unimportant. The dynamic lattice is thus a 'flow chart' of nearer and more remote dynamic goals. It brings out the important point that attitudes are not just subsidiated in a long chain but that they converge on nodes and redistribute therefrom.
