| A | B |
|---|
| Behavioral theories | we are conditioned to repeat effective behaviors and continue to learn from the environment around us |
| Social Cognitive Personality Theories | how personalities interact with environment |
| reciprocal determinism | personality can change depending on one's thoughts, the environment, and behavior; Bandura theory |
| internal locus of control | you believe you can control fate and what happens in your life. |
| external locus of control | you believe the world determines what happens to you and there is no way you could change it |
| learned helplessness | a state in which an organism has learned to resign itself to repeated aversive (negative) events |
| optimism | postitive outlook (usually internal locus) |
| pessimism | negative outlook (usually external locus) |
| self-esteem | how much you value yourself |
| self-efficacy | your ability to have confidence in completing a task; Bandura concept |
| self-serving bias | where most people are likely to perceive themselves favorably |
