CHS AP Psychology Unit 10: Personality Essential Task 10.4:Compare and contrast the psychoanalytic, humanistic and Cognitive-Social Learning Theory with specific attention to Bandura's expectances, performance standards, self-efficacy, locus of control, and learned helplessness. Logo Green is R=8 G=138 B=76 Blue is R= 0 G=110 B=184 Border Grey is R=74 G=69 B=64

Social-Cognitive Perspective of Personality Questions: Answer them on a sheet of paper Be prepared to share with group

Cognitive-Social Learning Theories in Personality Albert Bandura We each have a set of personal standards that grew out of our own life history and thus shape our behavior. In this light, behavior is seen as the interaction of cognition, learning, and the current environment.

Cognitive-Social Learning Theories in Personality Cognition Environment

Expectancies: Reciprocal Determinism What a person expects from a situation or from their own behavior people evaluate situations based on these Expectancies are formed from personal preferences/past experiences The actual feedback will in turn mold future expectancies

Think of the ABCs A = Affect or thoughts and emotions B = Behaviors C = Consequences

Expectancies form Performance Standards. This leads people to conduct themselves according to performance standards Individually determined standards of excellence by which we judge our behavior If you meet your own performance standards then you get . . .

Self-efficacy The expectancy that your efforts will be successful How competitive are you? Do you think you can unscramble words faster than your classmates?

Locus of control a common expectancy (Julian Rotter) by which people view a situation Internal locus of control – they can control their own fate. Through hard work, skill, and training, they can find reinforcements and avoid punishments External locus of control – do not believe they control their own fate. Instead they are convinced that chance, luck, and the behavior of others determines their destiny and that they are helpless to change the course of their lives. – learned helplessness