PSYC 2800 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Julian Rotter, Social Learning Theory, Bayesian Probability
19 Dec 2018
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People"s desire to seek further clarification of the personal world. Nature and value of significance of subjective probabilities. Actively seeking info in a direct attempt to give meaning to their experiences. Need for cognition- amount of time and effort willing to put forth when processing information to prepare a course of action to external stimuli. Julian rotter- refining social learning theory of personality. Focused on why a person acts a specific way and why they. Behavior potential- likelihood of a specific behavior occurring in a particular situation as a means of achieving a specific goal. Thinking about a given action in a given situation. What u want from that situation you choose the behavior. Outcome expectancy: subjective belief that performing a given behavior in a given situation will produce a specific reward: specific expectancies: beliefs regarding a behavior-reward relationship in a particular situation.
