Psychology › Section K · Personality › Topic K.4
Learning and social-cognitive approaches
What if your personality is less a hidden inner structure and more a set of habits, beliefs and expectations you have learned? Learning and social-cognitive theorists took that view, and because they worked with observable behaviour and measurable beliefs, their ideas could be tested in the laboratory.
In this topic
- Personality as something learned
- Skinner: personality as response tendencies
- Bandura: learning by watching
- Reciprocal determinism
- Worked example: a cycle in maths class
- Self-efficacy
- Rotter: locus of control
- Mischel and the person-situation debate
- Worked example: the marshmallow test revisited
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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