PSYC104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Operant Conditioning, Jean-Paul Sartre, Walter Mischel
14 Aug 2018
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Inner working models: schemas, mental models, knowledge structures, self-systems, people are motivate to maintain a sense of cohesion, coherence and integration among elements of the system. Important for developing stable and healthy sense of self. Attachment theory joh bowlby: secure (trusting, seeks intimacy, ambivalent (insecure, needy, dependent, avoidant (distrustful, avoiding, independent, fearful (afraid of being hurt, abandoned, exposed) Strengths: strong empirical support, clinical utility and success. Weaknesses: does not deal with adult learning, very male-centred, hard to test some facets. If e(cid:374)ough (cid:374)odes are acti(cid:448)ated, the e(cid:374)tire sche(cid:373)a (cid:449)ill (cid:858)reach threshold(cid:859) If some nodes are activated, but the schema does not reach threshold, it is said to be (cid:858)pri(cid:373)ed(cid:859: this can influence behaviour on an implicit level. Advantages: acknowledge role of thoughts, memories and neural networks in personality, readily testable through experimentation, applied value. Weaknesses: too much focus on rational and conscious processes, assumption that people can report what they think and feel.
