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What is personality?

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A unique psychological make up

2
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Characteristics of trait theory

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Born with innate traits
Are stable, consistent, enduring
Extroverted people give opinion loudly
Problem with this is personality change

3
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Characteristics of social learning theory

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Suggest behaviour is learnt from significant others by social isolation.
We learn from people we hold in high esteem = role models

4
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Socialisation

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Developing personality traits by associating and learning from others

5
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What are the two types of socialisation

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Primary - from our family

Secondary - schools,media, learning from others

6
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What behaviour do we copy?

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Behaviour that we see as successful and powerful and is consistently shown to us

7
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Vicarious learning

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When a person is motivated to learn by watching someone else work and be rewarded

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Four steps in vicarious learning?

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Observe - identify - reinforced - copy

9
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What is the interactionist approach?

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A theory which combines trait and social learning to predict behaviour in situations

10
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What is The Hollander approach ?

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A theory that suggests the personality is made up of 3 features

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What are the 3 features of the Hollander approach?

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The core
Typical responses
Role related behaviour

12
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Credulous approach

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You believe the theories, you accept a link that personality can predict behaviour

13
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Sceptical approach

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You don’t believe them, you doubt the link that personality can predict behaviour

14
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How could interactionist approach improve performance?

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Coach predicts potential aggressive behaviour - remove player before getting sent off.
Coach could change players by encouraging them in situations like penalties.

15
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3 ways of measuring personality

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Questionnaire
Observations
Interview