What is the main idea of the behavioral perspective on personality?

Answer:Personality is significantly shaped by the reinforcements and consequences outside of the organism.

Explanation:

The behavior perspective holds a belief that our personalities are moulded by our interaction with surrounding environment. Psychologist are able to examine certain events and behavior that can enable them to determine an individual's personality. Various interactions can shape our personalities such as learning from our parents and teachers, learning from media materials, relationship and from traumatic events in our lives. According to this behaviour there are two types of conditioning that shape those interactions that will have a long lasting impact on us because not every single interaction would shape us, these conditioning are operant and classical conditioning.

Operant conditioning shape our behavior by the fact that we respond differently to behaviours depending on whether we will receive punishment or rewards. Classical conditioning our behavior relies on certain stimuli that evoke certain behavior.