JULIAN ROTTER AND WALTER MISCHEL: COGNITIVE SOCIAL LEARNING THEORY Flashcards
cognitive factors help shape how people will react to environmental forces.
Learning Theory
prime determinants of performance
one’s expectations of future events
keys to predicting behavior
cognition
past histories
expectations of the future
cognitive factors
expectancies subjective perceptions values goals personal standards
Rotter’s Social Learning Theory rests on five basic hypotheses:
human interact with their meaningful environments
human personality is learned
personality has a basic unity
motivation is goal-directed
people are capable of anticipating events
people’s reaction to environmental stimuli depends on the meaning or importance that they attach to an event
humans interact with their meaningful environments
personality can be changed or modified as long as people are capable of learning
human personality is learned
personalities possess relative stability
personality has a basic unity
human behavior lies in people’s expectations that their behaviors are advancing them toward goals.
motivation is goal-directed
define reinforcement as any action, condition, or event which affects the individual’s movement toward a goal
Empirical Law of Effect
in specific situations, behavior is estimated by the
Basic Prediction Formula
basic prediction formula suggests that the potential for a given behavior to occur is a function of the person’s _____ plus the _____
Expectancy
Reinforcement Value
general prediction formula states that need potential is a function of _____ and _____
Freedom of Movement
Need Value
refer to the likelihood that a given behavior will occur in a particular situation
Behavior Potential
person’s expectation of being reinforced
Expectancy