PSY 1102 Lecture : Chapter 13 - Personlity.docx

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

Document Summary

Earn a point p. 553-572 big pay off!!! The typical way you think, feel and behave. Evaluating the trait perspective (see earn a point) For decades the answer to this was, according to trait perspective, behaviours are affected by internal predispositions, until walter. Mischel came along and criticised the trait perspective saying traits are poor predictors of behaviours. According to this perspective, personality is totally and fully shaped by the environment, as we are interacting with the environment some behaviours are reinforced and some are not. We are more likely to repeat behaviours that are going to help us gain something desirable and avoid something undesirable: the social cognitive perspective. Bandura: main idea of this perspective is that personality is the end result of a complex interaction between a number of different factors, those factors being social or cognitive. Learning: much of our behaviours are learned, we learn through observation, modelling and reward & punishment.