Personality

Question 1

What are traits?

Answer 1

The initial characteristics that we are born with.

Question 2

What are the three features of traits?

Answer 2

They are stable, consistent and enduring.

Question 3

What is the social learning approach?

Answer 3

Behaviour is picked up from others by socialisation. Our primary source if the people that we look up to who are close to us, such as our parents. Our secondary source are the people that we look up to that are not as personal to us, such as athletes.

Question 4

What is the interactionist perspective?

Answer 4

A theory which combines trait and social learning to predict behaviour in a specific situation. This shows that born traits are adapted according to the situation.

Question 5

What is the equation that links behaviour, function, personality and environment?

Answer 5

Behaviour= function (personality X environment)

Question 6

What are the 3 features of personality?

Answer 6

• The core
• Typical responses
• Role related behaviour

Question 7

What is the Hollander approach to interactionists theory?

Answer 7

It was suggested that the more the environment has an influence the more the likely the behaviour is to change.

Question 8

What is the credulous approach?

Answer 8

You believe the theories, you accept a link that personality can predict behaviour.

Question 9

What is the sceptical approach?

Answer 9

You don’t believe the theories, you doubt the link that personality can predict behaviour.