Behavioral and Social Cognitive View of Personality

Question 1

in behaviorism, sets of well-learned responses that have become automatic

Answer 1

Habits

Question 2

theorists who emphasize the importance of both the influences of other people’s behavior and of a person’s own expectancies on learning.

Answer 2

Social Cognitive Learning Theorists

Question 3

learning theory that includes cognitive processes such as anticipating, judging, memory, and imitation of models.

Answer 3

Social Cognitive View

Question 4

Bandura’s explanation of how the factors of environment, personal characteristics, and behavior can interact to determine future behavior.

Answer 4

Reciprocal Determinism

Question 5

individual’s expectancy of how effective his or her efforts to accomplish a goal will be in any particular circumstance.

Answer 5

Self-Efficacy

Question 6

the tendency for people to assume that they either have control or do not have control over events and consequences in their lives.

Answer 6

Locus of Control

Question 7

a person’s subjective feeling that a particular behavior will lead to a reinforcing consequence.

Answer 7

Expectancy

Question 8

Who: concept of self-efficacy; believed three factors were important: the environment, the behavior itself,
and personal or cognitive experiences from earlier experiences; each affect the other two in a reciprocal way—reciprocal determinism

Answer 8

Bandura

Question 9

Who: theory based on principles of motivation derived from Thorndike’s law of effect; personality is set of potential responses to various situations, including one’s locus of control (internal vs. external), sense of expectancy, and preference for particular reinforcers.

Answer 9

Rotter