The Importance of Our Thought Patterns in Personality Development Was

question 109

Multiple Choice

The importance of our thought patterns in personality development was emphasized by

• A) radical behaviourists.
• B) social learning theorists.
• C) classical conditioning theorists.
• D) operant conditioning theorists.

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Definitions:

Identity Assimilation

Whitbourne’s term for effort to fit new experience into an existing self-concept.

Identity Style

The way an individual approaches forming and revising their personal identity and beliefs.

Accommodative

Adaptation by which the mind reconciles contradictory perceptions and adapts cognitive frameworks to account for new experiences.

Comprehensive

Covering or including everything, thorough and complete in scope or coverage.