PSYC 470 Lecture 4: Theories of personality lecture 4 week 3
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Trait dispositional: what global traits make up and adequately describe personality: ocean. Typically hidden from the person: some examples are internal con ict, de cits, and adaptations, all of these taken in the context of early development. Behaviorist: do not care about the internal workings. External environment and the effects of conditioning and learning. Operant and classical conditioning come into play with this theory. Social cognitive: attributes differences in personality to socialization, expectations, and information based mental processes. Seeks to explain things like the creation of schemas. Humanistic/ phenomenological: seeks to answer how one nds meaning, especially in regard to things like work and death. Branching: think about branching as a model of development, start on a speci c branch, certain characteristics place people on different branches, genetics, punishments, and parenting are examples of things that can put people on different branches.
