1. A person’s pattern of thinking, feeling and acting.
Personality
Four Main Theories:
Psychoanalytic Theory
Humanistic Theory
Social-Cognitive Theory
Trait Theory
A person’s pattern of thinking, feeling and acting.

2. Basic Ideas Proposed by Albert Bandura (the Bobo Doll guy!)
Personality/behavior is a combination of learning (social) and mental processes (cognitive)
Emphasizes external events and how we interpret them

3. Reciprocal Determinism
How we interact with the environment shapes who we are and vice versa

4. Self-Efficacy Our perceived ability to succeed
How likely you are to succeed at some specific goal
This can lead to a self-fulfilling prophecy for ourselves!

5. Exploring the Self Spotlight Effect Self Esteem Self-Serving Bias
overestimating others noticing and evaluating our appearance, performance, and blunders
Self Esteem
one’s feelings of high or low self-worth
Self-Serving Bias
readiness to perceive oneself favorably

6. Social-Cognitive Perspective
Learned Helplessness
Learned Helplessness
the hopelessness and passive resignation an animal or human learns when unable to avoid repeated aversive events
Uncontrollable
bad events
Perceived
lack of control
Generalized
helpless behavior

7. Locus of Control
Do we control what happens to us (INTERNAL LOCUS) or do we have no control over life (EXTERNAL LOCUS)?
Locus of Control Survey

8. Locus of Control Benefits of having Internal Locus of Control:
Achieve more in school, act more independently, enjoy better health, feel less depressed, better able to delay gratification, better able to deal with stress

9. Optimism vs. Pessimism
Measure of attitude and outlook: positive (optimistic) or negative (pessimistic)

10. Optimism vs. Pessimism
Benefits of Optimism: more productive, better health
Drawbacks of Optimism: can blind us to real risks (STD, college application examples)