PSY 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Walter Mischel, Determinism, Impulsivity

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

Document Summary

Walter mischel: says they are ignoring the environment, traits are a poor predictors of behaviours, you cannot use traits and internal dispositions to predict behaviours. Personality is nothing but a set of learned behaviours. We are more likely to repeat behaviours to get something desirable and avoid behaviours that give us something undesirable: the social cognitive perspective. Bandura we have the personality today as a result of a complex interaction with a number of different factors. If you feel like you cannot do something you have low self-efficacy beliefs. Mutual causality the variables are mutually affecting each other. 3 ways: different people choose different situations, our personality shapes and affects how we react to the environment, our personality helps create situations to which we react. Locus of control internal or external: external people tend to believe that whatever happens in their lives is controlled by environmental or external factors.