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Personality Lecture 4 Social Learning Cognitive Theories
Personality Lecture 4 Social Learning Cognitive Theories
• PREAMBLE
• LAYMAN’S VIEW
• PSYCHOLOGICAL DEFINITION - SINGLE?
• THEORIES OF PERSONALITY – 4 MAIN THEORIES
• PSYCHOANALYTIC; HUMANISTIC, SOCIAL COGNITIVE, AND TRAIT THEORIES
• UNC. INTRA PSYCHIC - 3RD FORCE - BEHAVIORISTS VIEW.PT - BIOLOGICAL VIEW
• 3 FORCES @ WORK- SELF + GROWTH/ ESTEEM - 3 GENTLEMEN CONTRIBUTION - TRAIT/ CONTINUUM
• ID - PLEASURE - CARL ROGERS (UCPR) - RECIPROCAL DETERMINISM - ALLPORT, EYSENCK
• NEED CERTAIN NUTRIENTS (SOCIAL INPUTS) BEH, ENV, COG, INTERACT 2 DETERMINE
• GENUINE, EMPATHY, UCPR EACH OTHER
• EGO-REALITY/D. MECH. A.MASLOW (HIERARCHY) – CHANGE OR NO CHANGE - CATTELL – 16PF
• SUPEREGO – MORAL/PERFECT *S FULFILLMENT - BIG 5 DIMENSIONS
• OTHER . P STRUCTURE/ DYNAMICS/DEV *S. ACTUALIZATION *LOC* S EFFICACY ETC.* OCEAN
• ASSESSMENT * HARDINESS *OPENNESS
• INTERVIEW – STRUCTURED AND UNSTRUCTURED *CONSCIENTIOUSNESS
• OBSERVATION – VARIANTS *EXTRAVERSION
• PROJECTIVE TESTS - SUBJECTIVE * AGREEABLENESS
• OBJECTIVE TESTS - OBJECTIVE * NEUROTICISM
• RELATED ISSUES – VALIDITY, RELIABILITY ETC.
• PERSONALITY DISORDERS
• ANTISOCIAL * BORDERLINE
• HISTRIONIC * PARANOID
• SCHIZOID * SCHIZOTYPAL
• AVOIDANT * DEPENDENT
• OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE
SOCIAL LEARNING COGNITIVE
THEORY …(SLCT)
SOCIAL LEARNING THEORISTS
• This theoretical perspective combines important Behavioural Principles
• pays little attention to biological determinants
• Focuses on environmental & cognitive determinants
• People are not inherently good or bad; but are readily modified by events & situations in the environment
• Only theoretical viewpoint that believes personality is variable
• Learning
• Classical – neutral stimuli predicts & elicits response by an UCS by pairing
• Operant – where a response is altered by the consequence (reinforcers/ punishers) of a Behaviour
• Social – imitation/ observation
• Vicarious observation that change our cognition
• Cognitive
• Interpretations/ expectations
• Schemas
• Mental structure used to organize knowledge and guide cognitive processing & Behaviour
• Used to categorize objects & events based on common elements with the objective of interpreting & predicting the world
• Scripts
• Is a schematic knowledge structure held in memory that specifies beh. / events sequences that are appropriate for specific situations
FAMILIAR COGNITIONS
CLASSROOM STADIUM
FAMILIAR COGNITIONS CONT’D
SWIMMING POOL / 9T CLUB
CHAPEL
• If you expect someone to be angry with you, you may give the person a cold shoulder.
On the other hand, if you have an easygoing temperament you will likely enjoy close,
supportive friendship.
• The child doesn't like going to school, therefore, he/she acts out in class. Teachers and
administrators and peers in the school disliking having the child around. This forces the
administrators who dislike having him/her around to create a more restrictive
environment for children of this character.
• 2 more EXAMPLES
MORE INFORMATION AND AN EXAMPLE
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• 2ND EXAMPLE
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• (Please download word documents from folder labelled Personality hyperlinks on the link to my drive
given on the outline for the 2 other examples of Reciprocal determinism)
• Also read for more examples.
BANDURA’S CONCEPTS
• According to him these are the factors that really distinguishes one individual from
another
JULIAN ROTTER
• EXTERNAL LOC (feel that they are at the mercy of luck, fate, and powerful others). They
think that the outcome of treatment may be primarily due to fate, chance, powerful forces
n people. Luck is the most important tactic in life
• (Theresa & Ethen; Passion) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG9UqoGwIsM)
SOME STATEMENTS
• INTERNALS • EXTERNALS
• Peoples misfortunes results from the • Many of the unhappy things in people’s
mistakes they make lives are partly due to bad luck
• With enough effort, we can wipe out • It is difficult to have much control over
political corruption the things politicians do