PSY 121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Social Intelligence, Kimveer Gill, Murder Of Reena Virk
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Environmental influences: three primary aspects of environmental influence that have been examined, situations & social learning. Central personality traits acquired from learning history & expectations/beliefs. Acknowledgement that people can have a core set of traits and their behaviour can vary across situations: social-cognitive theories. The role of learning and environmental contingencies in personality. Julian rotter proposed expectancy theory: the extent to which people believe that their behaviours in particular situations will bring about rewards, internal vs. external locus of control, social-cognitive theories. Mischel"s cognitive-affective theory: behaviour an interaction of persons and situations (depends on a number of person variables) Bandura: stresses interaction of individual factors, behaviour, and environment. The individual, the individual"s behaviour, and the environment interact. Based on actual accomplishment, vicarious experience, persuasion, emotional arousal: social-cognitive theories. Expertise people bring to their experience of life tasks. Theories overlook emotion and the impact of unconscious motivation(s) Vague explanations of development of personal constructs and competencies.
