Personality consists of three different theories of how people behave and why they do so in different situations.
"Those Characteristics of a person that account for consistent patterns of behaviour" Pervin, 1993.
Trait Theory
- Personality is made up of gentically modified inherited traits
- Stable and Enduring
- There are three trait theories inside the whole trait theory they are: Girdanos Narrow Band Theory(Type A v Type B), Catells 16 personality facors and Eysencks trait theory
- Girdanos Narrow Band - Type A people are irritable, anxious and competitive. Strong desire to suceeed. Type B people are calm, relaxed, quiet and focused. Work slowly = Less stressed
- Catells 16 Personality Factors - 16 different and independent traits that make up personality such as Shy, Concete thinking, Bold and Abstract thinking
- Eysencks Trait Theory - Focuses on two dimensional traits...Extroversion and Introversion and Neurotic and Stable
- This theory suggests people change their behaviour/personality dependant on the envrionment/situation.
- Bandura suggests that the behaviour can be predicted by the state of the environment
- 2 main principles:
- Modelling which is copying the behaviour of somebody else,
- Reinforcement which means modelled behaviour is more likely to be repeated
- It is a combination of trait and social learning theories
- Behaviour is predicted by the interaction of personality traits with environment situation.
- Behaviour will remain stable within the same envrionment
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