Personality

Personality Summary

Trait Theory: B=F(P)

• Personality is made up of genetically inherent traits.
• These traits are stable and enduring.
• They imply consistent and predictable behavior.

Five factor personality model:

1. Extroversion
2. Agreeableness
3. Conscientiousness (will)
4. Neurosis 
5. Openness

Examples: 

• Girdano's Narrow Band theory type A & type B personalities
• Cattell's 16 Personality Factors
• Eysenck's Trait theory (2 dimensional)

Bandura's Social Learning Theory: B=F(E)

The suggestion that environment shapes personality 

We learn our behavior through our experiences and by modeling and reinforcement

A child will model a certain behaviour, after this if they are punished they will likely not repeat he action but if the child is reinforced  positively or negatively they are likely to repeat the action.  

Examples:

Standford Prison experiment

Bobo Doll experiment

Interactionist Theory: B=F(PE)

A combination of the two previous theories. 

Behavior will remain stable within the same environment but will change as the environment changes

Hollander's Structure of Personality

3 levels more permeable away from the center

Psychological Core

The "real you" a persons basic attitudes motives values and morals very hard to change

Typical response 

the usual manner of response to environmental situations indicates factors of the core

Role-related behaviour 

superficial - the behaviours which we adopt for different environmental situations. 

Personality tests 

advantages:

quick and simple indication as to basic parts of a persons personality

can be mass published

does not take long

is quite inexpensive

disadvantages:

not a precise view of personality in depth

can be inaccurate

people are likely to lie