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Life University Personality Psychology and Social Cognitivists Discussion

 

I’m working on a psychology discussion question and need an explanation and answer to help me learn.

What do behaviorists believe about how personality is developed? Summarize the behaviorists position here. Then, provide a concrete example, either of someone in your life or someone in pop culture, where the behaviorist theory of personality development applies. How would you endeavor to help them change their personality/behavior if you were a behavioral psychologist?

Now, shifting from the behaviorists to the social cognitivists…What did George Kelly mean by suggesting that people are like scientists (his “person as scientist” metaphor)?

Summarize Albert Bandura’s Social Learning Theory and discuss it’s value to our understanding of human personality, particularly as it relates to his ideas on self-efficacy.