Personal Profile Interview - Behaviorism Thesis

My answer: Yes.

10. What do you feel was the strongest influence on your attitudes?

Interviewee: My mother and maternal grandparents.

My answer: My parents and siblings.

11. What role do you feel a person's race, gender, or ethnicity play when forming a person's personality and attitudes?

Interviewee: I think that culture can have a tremendous impact on a person's personality because it can help shape expectations and reasonable beliefs. However, every advancement in civil rights or culture has been because someone has defied expectations, and those people seem to credit a strong family unit for the strength to stand up to adversity.

My answer: I think they contribute greatly to a person's personality and attitudes when people are raised in a manner that seems to verify truths about stereotypes regarding their race, ethnicity, and gender.For example, watching the Katrina footage three years ago, so many of the poor in New Orleans seemed trapped in a world that should have ended in the 1960s. In contrast to that, one of this year's presidential candidates is a young black man who was raised in poverty by a single mother.

12. Do you feel that you are better at tasks when you are intrinsically motivated or extrinsically motivated?

Interviewee: Intrinsically

My answer: Extrinsically

References

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