PSYC 2000 Study Guide - Final Guide: Antisocial Personality Disorder, Learned Helplessness, Bungee Jumping
Document Summary
Most people believe cattell"s 16pf inventory is too large and. Eysenck"s is too small so a middle ground of 5 was established. Controversy traits bay be enduring but the resulting behavior in different situations is different. Bandura believes that personality is the result of an interaction that takes place between a person and his social context: reciprocal determinism the three factors, behavior, cognition and environment are interlocking determinants of each other. Personal control whether we control the environment or the environment controls us. External locus of control refers to the perception that chance or outside forces beyond our personal control determine our fate. Internal locus of control - refers to the perception that we can control our own fate. Learned helplessness when unable to avoid repeated aversive events an animal or human learns hopelessness. Uncontrollable bad events leads to a perceived lack of control which is followed by generalized helpless behavior.
