Personality

Question 1

define personality

Answer 1

A unique psychological make up

Question 2

What does social learning approach suggest

Answer 2

Behaviour is learned from a significant other by socialisation.

Question 3

Define socialisation

Answer 3

Developing personality traits by associating and learning from others

Question 4

Define vicarious learning

Who came up with the theory?

Answer 4

Observational learning, when someone learns from watching someone else. observe -> identify -> reinforce -> copy.
Made by Bandura

Question 5

Define trait theory

Answer 5

We are born with characteristics and they are stable and consistant

Question 6

Define interactionist perspective theory

Who came up with this?

Answer 6

A theory which combines traits and social learning to predict behaviour in specific situations. Born traits are adapted to certain situations. B=f(PxE)
Lewin made it

Question 7

What was Hollandars approach to interactionist theory

Answer 7

Personality is made up of:
Core of the performer
Typical resonse
Role related behaviour

Question 8

What is the definition of someone who accepts the link between personality and predicting behaviour

Answer 8

Credulous approach

Question 9

What is the definition of someone who doubts the link between personality and predicting behaviour

Answer 9

Sceptic approach

Question 10

What are 3 ways of measuring personality

Write a positive and negative for each

Answer 10

Quesinaire P: Efficient, lots of info. N: Biased ansewer, misunderstandings
Observation P: true to life N:Subjective, behaviour can change when being watched
Intrerview P: more depth, specific. N:Time consuming, similar to questionaire