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The Learning Approach to Personality

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The learning approach explains personality as the accumulated set of behaviors a person's reinforcement history has produced.

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A consistently sociable adult is explained by a history in which social approach was reliably reinforced.

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A pure learning account struggles with stability across very different environments.