Consider a group of people sitting in a classroom acting verymuch alike: listening to the professor, taking notes, raising ahand to ask an occasional question. Now consider the same group ofpeople at the beach on a sunny afternoon – some are swimming andriding the waves, some are reading quietly under an umbrella, someare sleeping in the sun, some are watching people, some are runningand laughing and wrestling in the sea.
Using ideas from chapter 11 (such as The Big Five Traitperspective, Mischel’s ideas about situational factors, the SocialLearning perspective, Conditions of Worth and Locus of Control),explain the similarity of their behavior in the classroom and theclear differences in their behavior at the beach.
