Exam 5 - Section 2 Flashcards
_________-
• Reaction to shortcomings of behaviorism
Social Learning Theory
_________ chimpanzees
Kohler’s
shortcomings of behaviorism – Ignores _________, thought, and _________
- motivation
- cognition
-Social Learning Theory-
Rotter’s basic assumptions: most of our behavior is _________ and is acquired through our experiences with other _________
- learned
- people
Rotter bridged the gap between _________ and _________
- behaviorism
- humanism
-Social Learning Theory-
_________ basic assumptions: most of our behavior is learned and is _________ through our experiences with other people
- Rotter’s
- acquired
-Social Learning Theory-
Rotter’s basic assumptions
– Emphasis on _________ or _________ of personality
- unity
- interdependence
Skinner thinks were motivated by _________
reinforcement
_________ :
Our ideas about our environment shape the way that we behave more than our environment shapes the way we behave
Rotter
Rotter:
Our ideas about our environment shape the way that we _________ more than our environment shapes the way we behave
-behave
_________ - cognitive ability is innate
Rotter
-Social-Learning Concepts-
_________ : probability that a particular behavior will occur, as a function of the person’s expectancies
Behavior potential
-Social-Learning Concepts-
_________ : cognition or belief about the property of some object or event.
Expectancy
-Social-Learning Concepts-
_________ : importance of a given reinforcer to an individual in relation to other reinforcers,
Reinforcement value
_________ : meaning of the situation as it is defined by the person
Psychological situation
-Rotter-
_________ : individual’s expectancy that his or her behaviors will generally lead to success or failure
Freedom of movement
-Rotter-
_________ : dividing point between those outcomes that produce feelings of satisfaction and those that produce dissatisfaction
Minimal goal
-Rotter-
Minimal goal: Smallest amount of behavior that will lead to _________ and _________
- satisfaction
- dissatisfaction
_________ -
Recognize all of your experiences and all the ways that stimuli generalize for you
Rotters Personality Development
Rotters Personality Development-
Recognize all of your experiences and all the ways that stimuli _________ for you
-generalize
_________ : responses made in the presence of an original stimulus come to be made in the presence of other, similar stimuli
Stimulus generalization
_________ - we don’t have personality, just response to stimuli
Skinner
_________ - Response to stimuli makes personality
Rotter
Internal vs. external control of reinforcement: individuals belief that his or her behavior is self- determined (_________ control) or determined by outside factors (_________ control)
- internal
- external