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