Psychology 2550A/B Lecture : Ch 12: S-R Theory, Ch. 14: Rotter's Social Learning
9 Jan 2012
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Chapter 12: s-r theory y stimulus response theory y associated with 2 researchers who collaborated their research dollard & miller y attempted to develop a theory that translated psychoanalytic processes/terms into behaviourism. Structure y sometimes referred to neo-behaviourism because they take behaviourism perspective but they also look within the organism internal factor that contribute to those factors (whereas. Skinner would focus entirely on behaviour) y four fundamentals of learning: drive: like an impulse and related to the types of drives the psychoanalytic psychologists talked about (biological urges, etc. ) we learn to reduce drives - important part of learning. secondary drives: learned (ex: fear: cues: stimuli that motivate behaviour. Internal (more psychoanalytic) and external (more behaviourism) cues: response: the overt behaviour that we see the person engage in. can be more than just overt, can be covert (ex: thoughts) the act of repression can be considered a response: reinforcement:
