Social Learning Theory of Personality was given by

2016

Social Learning Theory of Personality was given by

  1. A.

    Bandura & Walters

  2. B.

    Dollard & Miller

  3. C.

    Carl Rogers

  4. D.

    Jung

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Correct answer: A

Personality psychologists have proposed several competing frameworks for how personality develops — psychoanalytic (unconscious drives), trait/type (stable dispositions), humanistic (self-actualisation), and social-learning (behaviour acquired by observing and imitating others, strengthened or weakened by reinforcement).

The specific framework named in the question — the Social Learning Theory of Personality — was proposed by Albert Bandura and Richard H. Walters, first developed in their 1963 book "Social Learning and Personality Development". They argued that personality traits and behaviours are largely learned by observing and imitating models (parents, peers, media figures) and are then strengthened or weakened by the reinforcement or punishment that follows — a mechanism supported by Bandura's Bobo-doll experiments on the observational learning of aggression.

Each other named psychologist is associated with a different framework, not this one:

  • Dollard & Miller proposed a stimulus–response (drive-reduction) theory of personality, built on habit, drive, cue, and reinforcement.

  • Carl Rogers proposed the humanistic, person-centred theory, centred on self-concept and self-actualisation.

  • Carl Jung proposed analytical psychology, centred on the collective unconscious, archetypes, and psychological types.

Hence, the Social Learning Theory of Personality is correctly attributed to Bandura & Walters.

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