PSY 0160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Behaviorism, Albert Bandura, Walter Mischel
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Previous theories: behaviorism social learning; learn through direct reinforcements, carl rogers view of self contributes to how we ind meaning in life events, psychoanalysis overemphasize unconscious forces; more emphasis on conscious self-relecion. Self processes thinking processes that involve self-concepion and personal goals. Give people the capacity for personal agency. Social factors contribute to children"s development of aggressive behavior: walter mischel. Studied people and their environment; studied processes through which individuals assign meaning to daily events. Social cogniive variables explain how people discriminate between situaions. View of the person: able to relect on self, thinking about self, and own thinking, people reason about the world using language, contemplate present, past, and future events. Study approach: take research from science, philosophy, and past literature. Diferences in people relect variaion in skill in execuing diferent types of acions. Involve both ways of thinking about life problems and behavioral skills in execuing soluions. Declaraive knowledge knowledge we can state in words.
