PSYC 2230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Fundamental Attribution Error, Short-Term Memory, Preschool

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2230
• Professor: Frank Marchese

Document Summary

Self-reinforcement = reinforce ourselves for appropriate behaviour and punish ourselves for inappropriate behaviour based on how others react. Influenced by what others reinforce us or punish us. Attention = learn from models with whom we are in frequent contact with: characteristics of model influence our attention processes. Some models attract our attention so we can"t seem to avoid their influences. Reproduction = although behaviour is learned and stored, we can only imitate if we string together the correct patterned of responses: first attempt at behaviour is usually a rough approximations. Behaviour is influenced through observing the effects of a model"s behaviour. A model may be reinforced/punished for a particular behaviour. If punished, we will be less likely to perform. We alter our behaviour as a result of observing the consequences of others" behaviour. Many of our aggressive behaviours are learned.