PSYC 370 Chapter Notes - Chapter 17: Social Learning Theory, Social Cognitive Theory, Ego Psychology
11 Sep 2013
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Book notes: chapter 17 personality theory in perspective. Hypothetic-deductive theories: comprising sets of intervening variable (theoretical concepts) that may be linked to observable events, both antecedents and consequents. The age of theory, declared koch in a massive study of psychology as a science, is dead. Grand personality theories (and learning theories as well) had failed. Their theoretical concepts were poorly described, not well defined operationally, and not clearly linked to observable. To cope with the difficulty of specifying links to antecedents and consequents, theories were liberalized, loosening and broadening the definitions of concepts. Koch claimed that the liberalization of theory and theoretical concepts was harmful. Consider social learning theory, social cognitive theory and the trait theories turned out that the connection of concepts to antecedent and consequent observables was not such a huge problem. Paradigms in personality: reprise and prospects: psychodynamics, among the psychodynamic theories, psychoanalysis and the ego theories (particularly.
