PSYC 370 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Social Cognitive Theory, Albert Bandura, Social Learning Theory
11 Dec 2016
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Albert bandura end of 1950s: behaviorism dying b/c of narrow approach, rise of cognitive psychology cognitive psychology: acknowledged the mind, vigorous and probing research resurrected by bandura. Bobo doll study filmed and cartoon models: same effects. 1925: alberta farming community father: farmer learned about the (cid:498)psychopathology of everyday life(cid:499: worked after high school for a summer on the alaska highway, many coworkers were avoiding the law. Phd @ state uni of iowa: strong behavioristic tradition. Clinical internship, then stanford psychology department: david starr jordan professor of social science. Book: social learning and personality development: outlined basic ideas of theory. Sclt: revisions to reinforcement reinforcement not necessary learner anticipates reinforcement to be received from imitating a model. Reinforcement is informative and motivational, an antecedent vs classical view: reinforcement has automatic effects observational learning: anticipated reinforcement channels attention to models, whose actions are coded, organized, and rehearsed by the learner.
