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Psychology Assignment 1
Personality• The set of individual characteristics that make a
person unique.• Determines patterns of behaviour• (Stafford-Brown and Rea, 2010)
Personality theories• Jarvis, 2006• Marten’s schematic view of personality• Bandura’s Social learning theory• Friedman, 1996
Jarvis, 2006• Genetic makeup - Innate aspect of personality• Past experiences• Nature of the situation• Free will.
Friedman, 1996• Type A and B personalitiesType A Type B
Competitive, desire to succeed Less competitive
Achievement oriented More relaxed
Strong sense of urgency Takes time to complete tasks
Aggressive, restless, impatient Calm, laid back and patient
Find it difficult to delegate Delegate work easily
High levels of stress Low levels of stress
Motivation• A desire to fulfil a need (Cox, 2007)• Internal mechanisms which arouse and direct behaviour (Sage,
1974)
• Fulfilling a need• Internal state• Direction• Intensity• Energise behaviour
• Dependent on personality
Group dynamics
• Group• Collective identity, shared purpose, structured
communication, personal and/or task interdependence, interpersonal attraction (Weinburg and Gould, 2007)
• Team
Group
Collective identityshared purpose
structured communicationpersonal and/or task interdependence
interpersonal attraction (Weinburg and Gould, 2007)
Team
Tuckman and Jenson (1977)• Stages of group development
Forming•Coming together and meeting
Storming•conflict - establish roles
Norming•Accepting common goals
Performing •Achieve mutual goals
Adjourning• Breaking
up of team
Belbin team roles
Who is what?• Implementer - Lauren• Coordinator - Ollie• Monitor-evaluator - Tom• Shaper - • Plant – Jorge, Matt, Mort• Resource investigator - • Team worker – Alex, Ben, Corey, Jonathan, Rob
Moon survival activity
Frutehut activity