Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Observational Learning, Determinism, Classical Conditioning

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

Reciprocal determinism is the interaction between a person"s behaviours, personal factors (motivation), and environment. The social-cognitive theory view behaviours as being influenced by people"s actions/cognitions and their social context. Talking about interactions between individual and situation they"re in: cognition -> environment -> behavior, ex. Meg is interested in soccer (cognition), joins a soccer team (environment), and spends time with soccer players (behavior): or, she can spend a lot of time with soccer players, become interested in it, and joins a soccer team. Behavior leads to a cognition: other direction: hangs with soccer players, so she joins a soccer team , and then after a while develop a real interest in soccer, which then reinforces her hanging with the team. This theory was developed by bandura (same scientist who did work on observational learning). Personal control (locus of control, learned helplessness, and the tyranny of choice) Important element of social cognitive theory is personal control.