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| Unconditioned stimulus (food), causes salivation (unconditioned response) paired with bell (neutral stimulus). Neutral stimulus can come to elicit same response as unconditioned stimulus. |
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| Classical Conditioning Personality Outcomes |
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| Drinking at party (neutral stimuli) that is fun become "likes" while woman drinking at party (neutral) that is raped becomes a "dislikes". Same stimuli can elicit different responses. |
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| The changing of behavior by manipulating its consequences |
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| Operant Conditioning Personality Outcomes |
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| Each individual is different and an idiographic approach, rather than a nomothetic, is used. |
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| Innate motivators of behavior ( hunger, thirst ). |
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| Drives learned as association to primary drives. |
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| Habits are built on hierarchy of secondary (acquired) drives. If you are mugged walking down a dark alley, you will learn to avoid such situations but feel anxiety in similar situations. Learned anxiety is acquired drive that motivates new behavior. |
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| Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory (RST) |
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| Biobehavioral systems influence individual responses to both reward and punishment. |
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| Assessing personality by examining the frequency with which a person performs certain observable actions. A conscientious person will complete work on time, persevere in a task, be prudent before spending money, and refuse an impulsive dare. |
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| Emphasizes integrative nature of perception and thought saying the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. A configuration of a stimulus is its essence. The essence lies in the configuration which is lost when subparts are analyzed. |
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An expectancy or belief about how competently one will be able to enact a behavior. Self-Efficacy is most importantly influenced by our own personal experiences. Then vicarious experience, verbal persuasion and emotion.
Vicarious- People don't mindlessly copy but they decide consciously whether to preform the behavior. |
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Trait - Allport. Generalized neuropsychic structure or core tendency that underlies behavior across time and situations.
Type- people are divided into categories as opposed to continuums.
State- Temporary behaviors or feelings that depend on persons situations or motives at a particular time. |
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n Ach - persistence and driven to succeed on tasks that society sets out for them.
n Aff - Come together and spend more time with people.
n Power - Naturally seek positions and offices that allow or invite them to assert control over others.
n Exh - Want to show themselves before others and amuse, entertain, excite, or even shock others. |
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| People who are lucky are confident, internal locus of control, high self-esteem, self-actualizing. Stuff just works out for them. They are not as likely to miss an opportunities including jobs. |
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| Focus of existentialists and humanists |
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Existentialists - focus on our existence
Humanists- emphasizes the personal worth of the individual and the importance of human values. |
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| Fromm's describes adaptive personality |
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| Productive orientation as they enrich the world through their own creative endeavors and humanitarian ethics. |
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| Healthy Personality and Unhealthy personality according to Rogers. |
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| Healthy - We should become one's self. Trust your own experience and accept that people are different. Leads a spiritually enriching, exciting, and courageous life and doesn't let angry feelings lead to aggressive behaviors. Responsibility is self-liberating and positive. |
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| behavior pattern represents underlying predisposition but that the propensity to act is realized in different ways in different situations. |
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