Habits and Attitudes
Habits obviously have a determining influence on behavior You have only to look at your own habits to see how they affect the behave. i way you Habits, however, are much more narrow and limited influences than are traits. They are also inflexible, involving a specific response to a specific stimulus. A trait or personal disposition is much broader because it arises from the integration of a number of individual habits that have in common the performance of the same adaptive function for the person. A number of habits may thus blend or fuse to become a single trait.
Allport offered the example of a child learning to brush his or her teeth twice a day. After a while the behavior becomes automatic (habitual). The child also learns to wash his or her hands after going to the toilet and before eating. These behaviors, and others serving the same function (cleanliness), become so many separate habits all directed toward the same purpose. All of them taken together form a trait of the person: cleanliness.