WGU D564 THEORIES OF PERSONALITY OA
EXAM 2 FINAL PAPER 2026 SOLVED
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◉ behaviorism.
Answer: the theoretical view of personality that focuses on overt
behavior and the ways in which it can be affected by rewards and
punishments in the environment.
◉ functional analysis.
Answer: in behaviorism, a description of how a behavior is a
function of the environment of the person or animal that performs
it.
◉ empiricism.
Answer: the idea that everything a person knows comes from
experience.
◉ tabula rasa.
,Answer: Latin for 'blank slate,' term used by 19th century
philosopher John Locke used to describe the mind of a newborn
baby ready to be written on by experience.
◉ associationism.
Answer: the idea that all complex ideas are combinations of two or
more simple ideas.
◉ hedonism.
Answer: the idea that people are motivated to seek pleasure and
avoid pain.
◉ rewards and punishment on motivation.
Answer: the fundamental motivations of pleasure and pain explain
why rewards and punishments shape behavior.
◉ utilitarianism.
Answer: the idea that the best society is the one that creates the
most happiness for the largest number of people.
◉ habituation.
Answer: the decrease in response to a stimulus on repeated
applications; this is the simplest kind of learning.
,◉ classical conditioning.
Answer: the kind of learning in which an unconditioned response
(such as salivating), that is naturally elicited by one stimulus (such
as food), becomes elicited also by a new, conditioned stimulus (such
as a bell).
◉ learned helplessness.
Answer: a belief that nothing one does matters, derived from an
experience of random or unpredictable reward and punishment, and
theorized to be a basis of depression.
◉ respondent conditioning.
Answer: Skinner's term for classical conditioning.
◉ operant conditioning.
Answer: Skinner's term for the process of learning in which an
organism's behavior is shaped by the effect of the behavior on the
environment.
◉ reinforcement.
Answer: in operant conditioning, a reward that, when applied
following a behavior, increases the frequency of that behavior.
◉ social learning theories.
, Answer: John Dollard and Neal Miller (key idea is the concept of
habit hierarchy), Julian Rotter (primarily concerns decision making
and the role of expectancies of reward), and Albert Bandura
(emphasizes the social nature of learning).
◉ self-efficacy.
Answer: one's beliefs about the degree to which one will be able to
accomplish a goal if one tries.
◉ self-concept.
Answer: a person's knowledge and opinions about herself.
◉ observational learning.
Answer: learning a behavior by watching someone else do it.
◉ reciprocal determinism.
Answer: Bandura's term for the way people affect their
environments even while their environments affect them.
◉ limitations of behavioral approach.
Answer: - it is not clear that the effects of behavioral therapies on
phobias, addictions, and other problems are generalizable and long-
lasting - the characteristic ways people think can cause them to
respond differently to the same situation.
EXAM 2 FINAL PAPER 2026 SOLVED
QUESTIONS WITH FULL SOLUTION ALREADY
PASSED
◉ behaviorism.
Answer: the theoretical view of personality that focuses on overt
behavior and the ways in which it can be affected by rewards and
punishments in the environment.
◉ functional analysis.
Answer: in behaviorism, a description of how a behavior is a
function of the environment of the person or animal that performs
it.
◉ empiricism.
Answer: the idea that everything a person knows comes from
experience.
◉ tabula rasa.
,Answer: Latin for 'blank slate,' term used by 19th century
philosopher John Locke used to describe the mind of a newborn
baby ready to be written on by experience.
◉ associationism.
Answer: the idea that all complex ideas are combinations of two or
more simple ideas.
◉ hedonism.
Answer: the idea that people are motivated to seek pleasure and
avoid pain.
◉ rewards and punishment on motivation.
Answer: the fundamental motivations of pleasure and pain explain
why rewards and punishments shape behavior.
◉ utilitarianism.
Answer: the idea that the best society is the one that creates the
most happiness for the largest number of people.
◉ habituation.
Answer: the decrease in response to a stimulus on repeated
applications; this is the simplest kind of learning.
,◉ classical conditioning.
Answer: the kind of learning in which an unconditioned response
(such as salivating), that is naturally elicited by one stimulus (such
as food), becomes elicited also by a new, conditioned stimulus (such
as a bell).
◉ learned helplessness.
Answer: a belief that nothing one does matters, derived from an
experience of random or unpredictable reward and punishment, and
theorized to be a basis of depression.
◉ respondent conditioning.
Answer: Skinner's term for classical conditioning.
◉ operant conditioning.
Answer: Skinner's term for the process of learning in which an
organism's behavior is shaped by the effect of the behavior on the
environment.
◉ reinforcement.
Answer: in operant conditioning, a reward that, when applied
following a behavior, increases the frequency of that behavior.
◉ social learning theories.
, Answer: John Dollard and Neal Miller (key idea is the concept of
habit hierarchy), Julian Rotter (primarily concerns decision making
and the role of expectancies of reward), and Albert Bandura
(emphasizes the social nature of learning).
◉ self-efficacy.
Answer: one's beliefs about the degree to which one will be able to
accomplish a goal if one tries.
◉ self-concept.
Answer: a person's knowledge and opinions about herself.
◉ observational learning.
Answer: learning a behavior by watching someone else do it.
◉ reciprocal determinism.
Answer: Bandura's term for the way people affect their
environments even while their environments affect them.
◉ limitations of behavioral approach.
Answer: - it is not clear that the effects of behavioral therapies on
phobias, addictions, and other problems are generalizable and long-
lasting - the characteristic ways people think can cause them to
respond differently to the same situation.
