WHS AP Psychology Unit 10 Personality Essential Task

WHS AP Psychology Unit 10: Personality Essential Task 10 -4: Compare and contrast the psychoanalytic, humanistic and Cognitive-Social Learning Theory with specific attention to Bandura's expectances, performance standards, self-efficacy, locus of control, and learned helplessness.

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Cognitive-Social Learning Theories in Personality • Albert Bandura • We each have a set of personal standards that grew out of our own life history and thus shape our behavior. • In this light, behavior is seen as the interaction of cognition, learning, and the current environment. Outline

Cognitive-Social Learning Theories in Personality Environment Learning Cognition

Expectancies • What a person expects from a situation or from their own behavior • people evaluate situations based on these • Expectancies are formed from personal preferences/past experiences • The actual feedback will in turn mold future expectancies

Expectancies form Performance Standards. • This leads people to conduct themselves according to performance standards – Individually determined standards of excellence by which we judge our behavior – If you meet your own performance standards then you get. . .

Self-efficacy • The expectancy that your efforts will be successful

Locus of control • a common expectancy (Julian Rotter) by which people view a situation – Internal locus of control – they can control their own fate. Through hard work, skill, and training, they can find reinforcements and avoid punishments – External locus of control – do not believe they control their own fate. Instead they are convinced that chance, luck, and the behavior of others determines their destiny and that they are helpless to change the course of their lives. – learned helplessness