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Create a timeline showing significant breakthroughs and important steps in the history of trait theories. It doesn't have to be overly detailed. Just have the dates of the event and a short description of what happened.

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This solution creates timeline showing significant breakthroughs and important steps in the history of trait theories.

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Your timeline should most likely include the following theorists and their discoveries:

1) Allport is considered a trait theorist as he believed that every person has a small number of specific traits that predominate in his or her personality. He called these a person's central traits. While these central traits share in the make-up of personality, he also argued that occasionally one of them becomes an apparent dominant force. He called this a person's cardinal trait. Both the central traits and the occasional cardinal ...

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