PSYC 2130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Social Learning Theory, Julian Rotter, Albert Bandura

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2130
• Professor: Krista Philips

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Lecture 9: critical evaluation of operant conditioning models & methods * emotional reactions, attitudes and preferences * explanation of action tendencies. They have ability to explain how behaviors are acquired and maintained over time over the same principles, they account for many behaviors using theoretical constructs and inferences. The concepts are powerful tools for analyzing and understanding certain behaviors. Its been argued that principles of conditioning seem to account well for two general categories of experience: explain well how emotional responses are acquired (reran, emergence and dissolution of action tendencies. Very good model to understand complex phenomenon like anxiety get paired with other stimuli. Principles of conditioning are also good at explaining for certain tendencies emerge and how they weigh as a result for experiencing good or bad outcomes in connection with their behaviors. Negative attention better than no attention; negative attention can have a reinforcing property.