Perspectives 10

Perspectives on Personality: Loren on Roles, Goals, Models and More

After watching Loren talk about his memories and development, answer these questions:

1. What influences does Loren talk about in relation to his development and the

development of his personality?

Loren’s parents divorced and he was raised by his mother so he didn’t really have any

structure when parenting him and so he had to learn a lot of things by himself which

wasn’t necessarily a bad thing. He thinks highly of himself even though on the outside it

may not be that way. He was given a lot of responsibility as a kid by his mother. He

credits a lot of how he acts to his mother being supportive of him being independent.

3. When you think of your own development, what roles, if any, do you see behavioral or

social learning processes has having played? For example, do you see any examples of

reinforcement, modeling, or observational learning in your own development that have

influenced the person you have become?

My mother is a highly observative person so I am as well; actually I would say I'm more

hypervigilant. I also have anxiety brought on by bullying from my high school years and so I'm

very careful of the words I say and things I do. I don’t want to push that on to someone else so I

taught that to myself.