1006 Lecture Notes - Peak Experience, Abraham Maslow, Albert Bandura
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Trait approach: personality traits are stable; therefore, predictable over time, personality traits are stable across situations, people differ on how much of a particular trait they possess (ex: tall ppl how much height they have) Big 5 personality traits: openness to experience, conscientiousness (responsible, caring, , extraversion (outgoing) Omnivert: in the middle of extraverted and introverted: agreeableness, neuroticism. Social cognitive approach: personality seen as the pattern of thinking and behaving that a person learns, roots in behaviourism. Modern social cognitive theories: rotters expectancy theory. Behaviour is determined by: what a person expects to happen after a behaviour, the value placed on the outcome. Also known as locus of control or locus of causality. ** bandura theory: albert bandura, the most famous canadian psychologist, theory: reciprocal determination. Four sources of information lead to self-efficacy: personal mastery (most likely to lead to self-efficacy, vicarious mastery (ex: lighting smoke with heater, verbal persuasion (most weak way to self-efficacy, physiological response (ex: fears)
