Exam 3 Personality Psychology: Chapter 14 Personality Processes Questions and Answers 100% Pass

Exam 3 Personality Psychology: Chapter 14 Personality Processes Questions and Answers 100% Pass Learning-Based Approaches: Two Simple Ideas - •Stimuli that occur close together in time will come to elicit the same response. •Behaviors followed by pleasant outcomes tend to be repeated; behaviors followed by unpleasant outcomes tend to be dropped. *Stimuli that occur close together in time will come to elicit the same response; for example, air puffs and a bell ringing will both elicit blinking.* Learning - the change of behavior as a result or function of experience. - explain personality in terms of the learning process - implies everyone should behave the same in the same environment or situation 2100% Pass Guarantee Olivia West, All Rights Reserved © 2025 Behaviorism Definition - study of how a person's behavior is a direct result of his environment, particularly the rewards and punishments that the environment contains Components of Behaviorism - - people should be studied from the outside - personality is the sum of everything a person does - Belief that the causes of behavior can be directly observed - Goal: functional analysis - Everything a person does and is, is learned though experience Behaviorism: People should be studied from the outside - All knowledge worth having comes from direct, public observation; introspection is not valid because it cannot be verified; environment is what's important. Behaviorism: Personality is the sum of everything a person does - does not include anything that cannot be directly observed (traits, unconscious conflicts, etc.); internal processes are not seen as important Behaviorism: Belief that the causes of behavior can be directly observed - because the causes are in the environment (rewards and punishments in the physical and social world) Functional analysis definition - determining how behavior is a function of one's environment 3100% Pass Guarantee Olivia West, All Rights Reserved © 2025 Habituation - a decrease in responsiveness with each repeated exposure to something. - Simplest form of behavior change - it can have important consequences The impact of major life events lessens over time Important Consequences of Habituation - Become numb to violence displayed in the media: exposure is related to more aggression and less empath Effects of habitation on happiness or sadness overtime? - (and there is evidence that this decreases helping behavior), winning the lottery (winners are not happier in the long run), and being paralyzed (people are not less happy in the long run). Classical Conditioning - the kind of learning in which an unconditioned response that is naturally elicited by one stimulus becomes elicited also by a new, conditioned stimulus How classical conditioning works - - Pavolv's dog - Learning that one stimulus is a warning or signal for another - Stimulus-response (S-R) conception of personality: Classical conditioning affects normally involuntary processes - insulin release, speed of heartbeat, nausea, opponent processes that lessen the effects of drugs, and so on. 4100% Pass Guarantee Olivia West, All Rights Reserved © 2025 Learned Helplessness - belief that nothing one does really matters; occurs when events seem to happen randomly and cannot be predicted; produces anxiety and depression Stimulus-response (S-R) conception of personality - Personality is our learned repertoire of S-R associations; people are unique because they have different learning histories. Operant Conditioning Definition - the process of learning in which an organism's behavior is shaped by the effect of the behavior on the environment Respondent conditioning definition - the conditioned response is essentially passive with no impact of its own; another name for classical conditioning Operant Conditioning (skinner) - Operant conditioning: when the animal learns to operate on the world in such a way as to change it to the animal's advantage Techniques of Operant Conditioning: Skinner - - Responden