APSY-UE 20 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Julian Rotter, Social Learning Theory, Externality
27 Nov 2016
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Chapter 7, reading 25: are you the master of your rate? . Julian rotter: one of the most influential behaviorists in psych. Proposed that individuals differ a great deal in terms of where they place their responsibility for what happens to them. External locus of control: when people interpret the consequences of their behavior to be controlled by luck, fate, or powerful others. Internal locus of control: people interpret their own choices and personality as responsible for their behavioral consequences. Person"s tendency to view events from an internal vs and external locus of control is fundamental to who we are and can be explained from a social learning theory perspective. This view behaviors in a given situation are learned because they are followed by some form of reward/reinforcement. Increases child"s expectation that a particular behavior will produce the desired reward.
