PSY 393 Study Guide - Final Guide: Reinforcement, Neurosis, Operant Conditioning
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Know skinner"s position of environmental control of operant behavior. Study how operant conditioning happens and the concepts of operant generalization, operant extinction, discriminative stimuli (sd), operant punishment, and operant reinforcement. Review mischel"s views on traits and the consistency of behavior across situations. Go over mischel"s concepts related to encodings, expectancies and beliefs, affects, Goals and subjective stimulus values, and self-regulatory systems and how these variables relate to if >>>then relationships. What is the key difference between freudian theory and the theory of dollard and miller. Thoroughly review bandura"s work on modeling and vicarious learning, as well as his concept of reciprocal determinism. Go over rotter"s concepts of behavior potential, reinforcement value, locus of. Control, and funder"s interpretation of rotter"s behavior potential formula. Go over books discussion of self-efficacy, optimism, locus of control and self- regulation. Review dollard and miller"s four steps of the learning process.
