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personality final
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What did Rogers believe personality is primarily influenced? | Conscious rational factors |
| What childhood experience is the origin of Rogers’ personality experience | Living by someone else’s view of the world rather than his own |
| How did Rogers’ early work in psychology start? | Counseling college students with adjustment problems |
| What did Rogers believe about the tendency of actualizing? | The tendency to actualize is innate |
| What did Rogers realize early in his career about the central fact of human psychology? | The central fact of human psychology is the self |
| According to Rogers, what is unconditional positive regard not dependent? | The child’s behavior |
| What method did Rogers use to assess personality? | Clinical interviews |
| What importance is Kelly’s personality theory is based? | Our interpretation of our environment |
| According to Kelly, what is the only way to understand people? | Interpretation of events |
| What did Kelly’s early work deal? | Public school and college students |
| According to Kelly, people in their everyday lives act how? | Very much like scientists |
| What is a construct? | A person’s way of looking at events in his or her world |
| What is Kelly’s theory based on what idea? | Themes from the past will appear in the future |
| What does the test of a construct system predict? | How well it predicts events |
| What is the essential truth about B. F. Skinner’s personality theory? | Skinner did not have a personality theory |
| What was Skinner’s argument about the science of psychology? | Psychology is the science of behavior |
| What did Skinner believe about the product of their environment? | He believed people are the products of their environment |
| How was Skinner’s childhood characterized? | Parental warnings that influenced his adult behavior |
| At what age did Skinner believe on how behavior can be controlled? | 22 |
| What did Skinner believe on how behavior can be controlled? | By the reinforcement that follows it |
| What did Skinner believe about the pattern or collection of personality? | Personality is a pattern or collection of operant behavior |
| According to Bandura, what was his approach to psychology? | Learning can occur without direct reinforcement |
| What did Bandura believe abut internal variables? | They are able to influence observational learning |
| When are new responses acquired in the modeling theory? | Before ever performing or displaying them |
| According to Bandura, what is the relationship between aggressive children and their parents? | Parents of aggressive children are probably aggressive |
| What did Bandura say about deviant persons? | They follow different models in childhood than people who are not deviant |
| What kind of behavior is most likely imitated by children? | Aggressive behavior |
| How to describe people who are likely to imitate a model’s behavior? | A person with low self-esteem |
| What is Rotter’s system called? | Social Learning Theory |
| According to Rotter, personality is determined mostly by what? | Both cognitive processes and external situations |
| What does Rotter believe about external reinforcing conditions? | They give direction to behavior because we are motivated to strive for positive reinforcement |
| What did Rotter primarily use to assess focus of control? | Self- report inventories |
| What is the peaking age in people who apparently become more internally oriented as they grow older? | Middle age |
| What group of adolescents would be the least externally oriented? | White (Caucasian) adolescents |
| What ethnic group views success as a product of external than internal factors? | Asian Americans |