BU288 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Social Cognitive Theory, Reinforcement, B. F. Skinner
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Intrapersonal skills: problem solving, critical thinking, learning alternate work processes, risk taking. Interpersonal skills: interactive skills such as communicating, teamwork, and conflict resolution: cultural awareness: learning social norms of firms; understanding company goals, Theory 1: operant learning theory: operant learning: subject learns to operate on the environment to achieve certain consequences. This connection between the behaviour and its consequences is what is learned. increase probability of desired behaviours& reduce/eliminate probability of undesirable behaviours: ex: bf skinner confined rats in a box containing a lever that delivered food when pulled. The rats eventually acquired the lever-pulling response as a means of obtaining food. Behaviour reinforcement received behaviour repeated: the appearance of the reinforcer depends on occurrence of the behaviour, in the skinnerian situation, the probability of the lever operation increased over time. : removal of a (bad) stimulus that thus increases/maintains the probability of some behaviour.
