Psychology / Unit 10 Psych 1117 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Learning Approach to Personality
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The idea
The learning approach explains personality as the accumulated set of behaviors a person's reinforcement history has produced.
In practice
A consistently sociable adult is explained by a history in which social approach was reliably reinforced.
Where people slip
A pure learning account struggles with stability across very different environments.
Your place on the trail
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