PSY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Gordon Allport, Factor Analysis, Extraversion And Introversion

• School: University of Rochester
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 101
• Professor: Christopher Niemic

Document Summary

Extraversion - describes how social and outgoing people are independence in thinking. Agreeableness - trustworthiness, willingness to help others: conscientiousness - describes those who are organized and disciplined in their lives. Rather - reciprocal causal arrow (arrow goes both ways) between person, behavior, and environment. The behavior part - we interact with the environment which impacts our behavior. The social part - we learn many of our behaviors through conditioning or observing behavior of others. The cognitive part - how we think about our environment affects our behavior. Learned helplessness: the learned helplessness phenomenon, seligman and maier (1967) - study with dogs. First group, dogs put in harness for a while, then released. Second group, dogs exposed to electric shocks, but have a button that they can press to relieve shocks. Third group, dogs exposed to shocks, but button does not have any effect.