PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Operant Conditioning, Determinism, Falsifiability
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Is the notion that our behaviour is controlled by our past experiences. Operant conditioning - animals produce behaviours that are reinforced and avoid those that were punished. Behaviourist personality theorists believe that the same principle applies to human personality. The behaviour is repeated: social-cognitive approach: Personality is how a person deals with the situations encountered in daily life. How we construct situations in our own minds. This is distinct from the trait approach in which people behave the same way across most situations. Personal constructs - we use to make sense of our world. The ways we organize the world in our own ideas. According to a social-cognitive psychologists argue that these dimensions place a high value in our life. Outcome expectancies - how we expect a behaviour to bring us closer to or further from our goals. What behaviours do you think will lead you towards these goals.
