PSY 130 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Social Learning Theory, B. F. Skinner, Sigmund Freud
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Behavioral determinants conscious and unconscious: to what degree are people aware of the causes of their behavior. Conversely, trait theorists and cognitive theorists rely heavily on self-reporting data in forming their hypotheses and testing them. For example, they assume that people can understand and disclose their level of social anxiety, or the way they organize information in their minds. However, these psychologists are hedging in this matter from an extreme perspective. Cognitive psychologists increasingly understand that most information is processed at a point below consciousness. Humanistic philosophers are still at the middle ground taking a stance on this subject. Although those theories argue that no one understands us better than we do, they also agree that many people do not understand why they act the way they do. Free will versus determinism: the degree to which we determine our own fate and the degree to which we judge our actions by forces outside our control.
