PSY 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Biopsychosocial Model, Learned Helplessness, Determinism

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: Najwa Haddad

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It ignores other factors that affect behaviours eg. biological, situational factors cannot be neglected. Traits are poor predictor of behaviours; (cid:449)e (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t use it for predi(cid:272)tio(cid:374) Personality: typical way (characteristic pattern) i think, feel, behave. Trait perspe(cid:272)ti(cid:448)e fo(cid:272)uses o(cid:374) perso(cid:374)"s des(cid:272)riptio(cid:374) (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h does (cid:374)ot offer a(cid:374)(cid:455) e(cid:454)pla(cid:374)atio(cid:374) at all. It is seeing trait as main cause of behaviours knowing traits knowing behaviours. Mischel: behaviour is inconsistence, it varies between next person to the next. Epstein: agree/disagree with mischel; for specific use of traits, traits are poor predictor. However, based on similar situatio(cid:374)s, ge(cid:374)erall(cid:455) traits (cid:272)a(cid:374) predi(cid:272)t the perso(cid:374)"s (cid:271)ehaviours. **this is most agreed theory: both affects our behaviours &both interacts between the two. We do things, since we know the consequence there is a pay-off. We do what is good outcome if negative, we are less likely to do continuously, but we do what is good outcome.