Explain the concept of personality. Discuss Behavioral Approach of Personality.
Personality refers to characteristic ways of responding to individuals and situations.
Personality is characterised by the following features:
Behavioural Approach:
This approach does not give importance to the internal dynamics of behaviour. The behaviourists believe in data, which they feel are definable, observable, and measurable. Thus, they focus on learning
of stimulus-response connections and their reinforcement.
The structural unit of personality is the response.Each response is a behaviour, which is emitted to satisfy a specific need.
Cultural Approach:
It proposes that a group’s ‘economic maintenance system’ plays a vital role in the origin of cultural and behavioural variations.
The climatic conditions, the nature of terrain of the habitat and the availability of food (flora and fauna) in it determine not only people’s economic activities, but also their settlement patterns, social structures, division of labour, and other features such as child- rearing practices.
What are the different types of psychotherapy? Explain the principles on which humanistic existential therapy is based.