Final Essay Exam
PPE3003 Theories of Personality
*Instructions: Please choose a question from the following seven and answer the question to the best of your ability. Please answer the question as extensively as possible, but keep the answer to a 2 paragraph minimum. You may answer up to two questions.
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1. Discuss Allport's concept of personal dispositions and explain how personal dispositions differ from traits. 

2. Distinguish negative reinforcement from both positive reinforcement and punishment.

3. List and explain the five needs in Maslow's hierarchy.

4. Describe Rogers's concepts of the formative and actualizing tendencies. 

5. Define and explain being-in-the-world and nonbeing. 

6. Discuss specific ways in which Bandura's social cognitive theory differs from Skinner's behavioral analysis. 

7. Discuss Mischel's person-situation interaction, or conditional view of personal dispositions.

8. List Rotter's four variables of prediction and briefly define each of them. 

9. Define Kelly's concept of role, including core role. 

 

 

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