PSY 393 Lecture : Personality Psych
10 Sep 2014
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Overview of approach: behavior changes as a result of experience. Basic assumptions: personality equals behavior, personality is learned, learn what behaviors work for you and you keep doing them, personality is acquired over time, personality is influenced by external forces, shaped by environment. Types of theories the learning based approaches to personality are: We are sometimes unaware of their influence. More effective than punishment: learned association between behavior and its consequences, behaviors have good outcomes will be repeated and behaviors with bas outcomes will be. Behavior reinforcement increased chance of repeating behavior distinguished. Terms: punishment: an event that decreases the probability that the preceding action will be repeated in the future. Not uaually done properly: positive: something is presented/added, negative: something is removed/subtracted, reinforcement & punishment. Negative punishment (take away no tv: b. f. skinner (1904-1990, shaping. Rewarding successively closer approximations of a desired behavior. Examples: acknowledges the ways people think, plan, perceive, and believe that there are many.
