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Personality characteristics and learning theory refers to an accumulated set of learned experiences that affect your character over your lifetime. It relies on the assumption that all behavior is learned through experiences and interaction with the environment. Various theories attempt to explain how this assumption is arrived at.
Behavioral Personality Theory
Behavioral personality theory of learning emphasizes that learning results from interaction between individuals and the environment. It states that your personality is shaped from what you learn from the environment. For example, a child can learn personalities such as kindness, generosity or hostility from his parents, as well as the people in his environment. B.F. Skinner's radicalism theory falls in this category. According to this theory, personality can be observed and measured, and results from a sum of everything you do, rather than what you think.
Social Learning Theory
According to social learning theory, a person's personality consists of a sum of all learning tendencies that he has acquired from society. For example, people from different cultures have different personalities, while those from the same culture may share similar personalities since some cultures encourage certain behaviors and discourage others. Bandura's social learning theory falls in this category and suggests that you learn from others through modeling, studying and imitating. In other words, people learn through observing other people's behavior and attitudes, as well as the effects of those behaviors.
Cognitive Behavioral Theory
Cognitive behavioral theory states that your thoughts determine and predict your behavior. This theory was first developed by Aaron Beck, who insinuated that people tend to form self-concepts that affect the behavior they display. According to the theory, your thoughts influence your behaviors. Hence, negative thoughts or beliefs can make it difficult for you to have positive attitudes toward people or situations. It attempts to explain human behavior and learning tendencies by understanding your thought processes.The assumption is that human beings are rational and make reasonable decisions.
Psychoanalytic Learning Theory
This theory attempts to explain how one's habits make up his personality. It was first developed by John Dollard and Neal Miller to explain the dynamics of personality. It argues that your habits are controlled by four elements: drive (wanting something motivates learning); cue (noticing that something guides your behavior); response (doing something inspires learning); and reward (getting something inspires your behavior).
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