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PersonalityCSU
Personality
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| B.F Skinner | Strict behavioralist that believed environment was solely responsible for all behavior |
| Bandura | Agreed with Skinner but disagreed with his behaviorist approach to personality because he believed that thought and reason are key parts of learning |
| Social Cognitive Theory | emphasizes both learning and cognition as sources of individual differences in personality |
| reciprocal determinism | cognitive processes, behavior, and context all interact, each factor influencing and being influenced by the others simultaneously |
| Cognitive processes | all characteristics previously learned, including beliefs, expectations, and personality characteristics |
| Behavior | anything that we do that may be rewarded or punished |
| Self-efficacy | our level of confidence in our own abilities, developed through our social experiences |
| locus of control | our beliefs about the power we have over our lives |
| Walter Mischel | a student of Julian Rotter and taught at Stanford, he was a colleague of Bandura surveyed several decades of empirical psychological literature regarding trait prediction of behavior, and his conclusion shook the foundations of personality psychology |
| Self-regulation | he process of identifying a goal or set of goals and, in pursuing these goals, using both internal and external, also known as will power |
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