Personality & Abnormal Psychology: Behaviorism

Question 1

Behavior Theory regarding Personality Development

Answer 1

Behavior is learned as people interact with their environment.

Question 2

John Dollard & Neal Miller

Answer 2

Behavior theorists who blended psychoanalytic concepts in a behavioral stimulus -response reinforcement learning theory approach.

Question 3

B.F. Skinner

Answer 3

Believed that personality is a collection of behavior that happens to be sufficiently reinforced so as to persist.

Question 4

Albert Bandura

Answer 4

Created Social Learning Theory.

Question 5

Martin Seligman

Answer 5

Conducted a study regarding learned helplessness in dogs by shocking them in a high walled cell.

Question 6

Learned Helplessness

Answer 6

Associated with hu man depression where individuals faced with difficult situations and cannot escape learn to feel powerless to overcome problems.

Question 7

Psychoanalysts Vs. Behavioralists (Abnormal Behaviors)

Answer 7

Psychoanalysts believe abnormal behaviors to be a manifestation of some internal disorder. Behavioralists believe abnormal behavior, is the disorder.

Question 8

Cognitive - Behavior Therapy

Answer 8

A therapy method used to change and restructure a person’s distorted and irrational thought.

Question 9

Symptom Substitution

Answer 9

Psychoanalysts believe that symptom relief through behavioral methods don’t address the Underlying cause and that new symptoms would replace the old ones.