The statement 'Personality is nothing but a set of learned responses', best describes which of the following view about personality?

Personality is a patterned body of habits, traits, attitudes, and ideas of an individual as these are organized externally into roles and statuses and as they relate internally to motivation, goals, and various aspects of selfhood. Personality is all that a person is.

Key Points

Behaviouristic Views: Behaviourist psychologists were the main critics of the psychoanalytical theory of personality. They were against the idea that human personality can be understood using psyche and unconscious contents. They believed that  'personality is nothing but a set of learned responses.

• According to them, to understand personality, one needs to understand the S-R relationship and role of reinforcement first. So, according to them, personality is a collection of reinforced responses performed for different stimuli.
• There are basically three major theories of learning proposed by behaviourists: classical conditioning, instrumental conditioning, and observational learning.
• According to behaviourist theorists, personality is an abstract and hypothetical concept. 
• One of the most important tenets of behaviourism is that ‘what we are is the result of our learning’ and this learning occurs through reinforcement and observation.
• Since every human has different life conditions, therefore their S-R learning pattern is also different from each other. Due to this reason, we differ from each other in personality. 

 Additional Information

Hence, we can conclude that behaviourists believed that 'Personality is nothing but a set of learned responses.