Personality Assessment: Operant Conditionity

In general, people learn in many different ways, some learn with operant conditioning. Operant conditioning happens naturally when an unconditioned stimulus causes an unconditioned response. An example of this of would be when a cat smells its food, the unconditioned stimulus, it knows that they will be fed. You can use a conditioned stimulus to get a conditioned response through repetition. The smell of the food could be replaced with even something as simple as clapping your hands or opening a can of cat food over time. When I was growing up around my Grandmother, the behavior she was conditioning me to learn was saying please and thank you. If I did not say please before asking for something, then I was to wait 20 minutes before being able to ask again. This conditioned me to say please before asking for anything and saying thank you after

The big five factors that come from this personality assessment are openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. Openness is based off on openness to experience. Traits such as open-mindedness, tolerance, and creativity are measured highly on the openness scale. Conscientiousness measures how much a person plans out their ideas and activities. Traits such as carefulness, organized, and discipline. Extraversion measures how sociable a person is and how well they may be with interacting with others. Extraversion traits are sociable, affectionate, and fun-loving. Agreeableness measures how trusting and compassionate they are to others. Traits such as soft-hearted, trusting, and helpful. Lastly, neuroticism measures how emotionally stable a person may be. Traits such as calm, secure, and being happy with oneself will be low on the neuroticism scale. I believe in the big five theory of personality because it covers many traits that affects personality to make a correct assessment on any