Question

The ________ on personality focuses on the many ways our individual traits and thoughts interact with our social world as we move from one situation to another.

Answer 1

Answer:

The appropriate answer for the blank space is “social-cognitive perspective”.

Explanation:

The social-cognitive perspective views human personality, thoughts, decisions based on judgments, and interaction with the world as patterns or characteristics that continually develop as people gain one experience after another, or move from one situation to another.

Answer 2

Question Options:

1) humanistic perspective

2) psychoanalytic perspective

3) trait perspective

4) Social-cognitive perspective.

ANSWER:

The social cognitive perspective basically illustrates how individual traits and thoughts are largely influenced by observation rather than by trial and error.

This theory was advanced by Bandura and explains that when people observe others, they model their behaviour and use the information subsequently.