Psychology / Unit 9: Personality and Psychological Disorders
9.3 Social-Cognitive and Biological Views of Personality
Notes
- Albert Bandura's reciprocal determinism: personality comes from the interaction of behavior, thoughts and environment.
- Self-efficacy: belief in your ability to succeed at a task. Higher self-efficacy leads to more effort and persistence.
- Biological view: temperament and some traits are partly heritable. Twin studies suggest roughly 40 to 50 percent of the variation in many traits is due to genes.
- Environment matters too: culture, family and peers. Individualist cultures value independence; collectivist cultures value group harmony.
- Locus of control: internal vs external beliefs about control.
Practice
Jenna believes she can do well on the math exam if she works hard. This belief is:
Self-efficacy is confidence in your ability to reach a goal.
Bandura's reciprocal determinism says that personality is shaped by:
All three influence each other.
A culture that places the needs of the group above individual goals is called:
Collectivist cultures emphasize group harmony.
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