PSYC 514 Lecture Notes - Julian Rotter, Social Learning Theory, Personal Construct Theory

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Behaviourism and social learning theory is the second of three movements (forces) that predominated the. Julian rotter who did much of his writings in the late 40"s and 50"s, gives an extraordinary elegant simple idea of human behaviour, based on behaviourism. One of the things is to understand the concept of psychological situation; we respond not to situations per se, but rather to our perceptions regarding them (subjective interpretation of the situation) Distinction between objective and subjective, and subjective has primacy, any situation that is seen to be real, it will be real, whatever you see or perceive is all that matters, its meaning to you. Rotter feels the very key concepts are expectancy and reinforcement value. Expectancy for rotter is the subjective belief in the probability that a given behaviour will lead to a particular outcome, or reinforce one. Expectancy usually phrased as if i do this, then this will happen , what your behaviour will result in.

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