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Reflection on the Sources

The sources that I have found profoundly support my theory selected theory of unified theory of personality. As the theory targets to depict the importance of Cognitive-affective personality system coined by Yuichi Shoda and Walter Mischel in the year 1995.The system asserts for individual behavior to be comprehensively understood key interest has to be focused on an individual, their situation and the relationship between the situation and an individual (Mischel & Shoda,1995). The behavior of an individual arises from their own perspective of their situation and not from global personality trait. Inconsistency in behaviors is a just reflection of stable variation of a person. The sources, on the other hand, support this criterion by showing the different ideologies of the theory (Staats, 2011; Twenge, 2016).

The sources meet my evaluation criteria since they are all published in English and address the issue of personality psychology. Through the Shapiro Library, I have been able to locate the primary source of my selected theory. The primary source shaded light on the key aspects of the theory and factor of consideration for understanding personality psychology.

Summary of the Research Sources

The research sources identified shows the historical development of the theory. The principal people who played a vital role in shaping the theory in the way it is today. The contribution of these people is concisely and precisely illustrated. The research method applied in the sources is basically qualitative research by focusing on the publicized peer-reviewed articles as well as reliable books.

The research sources were identified by a search of various databases. First, the primary source relating to the theory was identified in the Shapiro Library. Next, the other articles were found in the Google Scholar database and PubMed database. The articles were searched through using different criteria. Namely, the articles that were searched for must have been written in English. There was no time frame for selecting the article to use. Several keywords were used to identify the research source of interest such as “Personality psychology”.

References

Mischel, W., & Shoda, Y. (1995). A cognitive-affective system theory of personality: Reconceptualizing situations, dispositions, dynamics, and invariance in personality structure. Psychological Review, 102(2), 246–268.

Staats, W. W. (2011). Behavior and Personality: Psychological Behaviorism.New York: Springer Pub.Co.

Twenge, J. (2016). Personality psychology: Understanding yourself and others, books a la carte edition. Place of publication not identified: Prentice Hall.