Question

What is one potential problem with cognitive-social theories? they focus on rationality. they focus less on emotions and irrational motives than some other theories. they focus more on emotions than rationality. they see goal seeking as part of personality?

Answer 1

The cognitive-social theories focus largely on the feelings, rather than reasoning and certain social learnings are not observed directly. Further, they also ignore development and maturation which occurs over the time. This theory is unable to explain the change of personality and motivation, with time.