what we're going to be talking about next.

And the behavioral theory says that personality

is a result of the interaction between an individual

and their environment.

So here's our person.

And then, this is the environment.

Whether it's society-- We'll draw a few houses here.

There you go.

You get the picture.

So basically, what I've drawn here

is one island, and another island,

and a bridge connecting both.

And you'll see why did that in a second.

OK, so the behavioral theory says

that we interact with our environment.

And it's also focused on observable and measurable

behavior, rather than mental or emotional behaviors.

So there are different types of behaviors.

And different theories focus more on one type of behavior

over the other.

So when looking at this, if this is the behavioral theory--

is this island right here.

I guess we can say the psychoanalytic theory over here

would be the most opposite because this theory focuses

on the mental behavior rather than observable behavior.

And behavioral theorists don't care

for theories that take thoughts and feelings into account.

So let's talk about two important theorists

of the behavioral theory, and the first is Skinner.

So Skinner was a strict behaviorist.

And he's associated with the concept

of operant conditioning, which you may have heard of before.

So operant conditioning uses rewards and punishments

to increase or decrease a behavior.

And another behaviorist, Pavlov, who was a Russian physiologist,

and he's also considered by many as the father of behaviorism,

he's associated with classical conditioning.

And he used his famous dog example, the Pavlov Dog

Experiment, to show what classical conditioning was.

It basically places a neutral stimulus

with an unconditional stimulus to trigger

an involuntary response.

So in the case of the dogs, ringing

a bell in the presence of food is

what caused the dogs to begin salivating.

It triggered that involuntary response.

So these theorists, Skinner and Pavlov,

believed that the environment determines the behavior.

So that's why I put ourselves in our environment.

We're shaped by the environment.

And people have consistent behavior patterns

because we have particular kinds of response tendencies.

But these responses can change if we

encountering new situations.

And that's why our personality develops

over our entire lifespan.

It's constantly evolving and changing.

Now, what is this bridge in the middle connecting

one extreme of behaviorism to the other,

the mental approach to the behavioral approach?

Now, it's not to say one is right over the other.

They're just two different approaches of personality.

OK, so back to this, the bridge.

The bridge the middle is what we're

going to call the cognitive theory.

And the cognitive theory is considered

a bridge between classic behaviorism and other theories

that emphasize thinking and behavior,

such as the psychoanalytic theory.

And it's because the cognitive theory

treats thinking as a behavior and has

much in common with the behavioral theory.

So Albert Bandura combines the concepts

of observing, thinking, and behaving

in the social cognitive theory, which

we'll take a look at next.