BU288 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Career Development, Job Performance, Observational Learning
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What is learning: a relatively permanent change in behavior potential as a result of practice or experience, behave get feedback (consequences) change behavior potential. Learning is prompted by feedback about the consequences of behavior: note: not necessarily change behavior, but change behavior potential. Operant learning theory: the subject learns to operate on the environment to achieve certain consequences. I. e. to get the desired feedback: operantly learned behavior is controlled by consequences that follow it. It is the connection between the behavior and the consequence that is learned. Law of effect: people repeat behaviors that bring them satisfaction and pleasure, and stop those that bring them dissatisfaction and pain. Increase probability of behavior: 2 ways to reinforce behavior: decrease probability of behavior: 2 ways to prevent behavior. Effective reinforcement in organization: contingent on specific desired behavior, diverse individual preferences, make it personally meaningful, sources and forms of reinforcement, performance feedback, social recognition. Components of social cognitive theory: observational learning, self-efficacy, self-regulation.
