The Behavourial Perspective on Personality Flashcards

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What is habits?

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In behavourism, sets of well-learned responses that have become automatic.

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Who is the social cognitive learning theorists?

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Theorists who emphasize the importance of both the influences of other people’s behaviour and of a person’s own expectancies on learning.

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What is the social cognitive view?

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A learning theory that includes cognitive processes such as anticipating, judging, memory, and limitation of models.

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What is reciprocal determinism?

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Bandura’s explanation of how the factors of environment, personal characteristics, and behaviour can interact to determine future behaviour.

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What is self-efficacy?

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An individual’s expectancy of how effective his or her efforts to accomplish a goal will be in any particular circumstances.

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What is locus of control?

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The tendency for people to assume that they either have control or do not have control over events and consequences in their lives.

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What is expectancy?

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A person’s subjective feeling that a particular behaviour will lead to a reinforcing consequence.

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