For those synapses, the high blood sugar is the same as if you were the Olympic Gold Medalist swimmer Michael Phelps (synapse) and your lane had filled with Jell-OÂ®, causing you not to be able to reach your full potential.
For this reason, social-cognitive theorists have devoted extensive effort to identifying the mechanisms of personality that either foster or inhibit change. According to Schwarz (2001), the social cognitive theory of personality considers change to be comprised of two distinct processes that must be deployed in stages.
What do the psychologists who helped develop the Five-Factor model believe about people's personalities? There is value in matching individuals to jobs on the basis of personality traits. What is a practical benefit of the work of trait theorists?