PSY 1102 Study Guide - Learned Helplessness, Impulsivity, Determinism

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

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For the earn a point: study everything from the main text except for obj. 5, 7, 8 study them in chapter review. Earn a point: 553- 572 going to pay off big time for second midterm and final exam. At least 10 questions on midterm from this section. The typical way you think, feel and behave. Not just one answers, but several perspectives attempting to answer this question: Evaluating the trait perspective (see earn a point) The terms you are using to define yourself is termed as traits. This has been a hotly debated question in psychology. According to trait perspective, behaviour is affected by internal predispositions period. Mischel seriously criticized this thought and he seriously though that traits were poor predictors of behaviour. Seymour epstein concluded that mischel is both correct and wrong. If we use traits to predict specific behaviours in a specific situation, they are poor predictors.