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| Expectancy-Reinforcement Model |
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| Probability that a particular behavior will occur, as a function of the person’s expectancies and the perceived value of the reinforce secured by the behavior in a given situation |
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| Cognition or belief about the property of some object or event, ii. What you expect a situation to look like going into it, based on past experience (goes from 0-100%) |
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| Importance of a given reinforce to an individual in relation to other reinforcers, if the probabilities of attaining all of them are equal |
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| Meaning of the situation as it is defined by the person |
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| individuals expectancy that his or her behaviors will generally lead to success (high freedom of movement) or failure (low freedom of movement) |
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| outgoing = high freedom of movement, social phobia or autism = low freedom of movement |
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| dividing point between those outcomes that produce feelings of satisfaction and those that produce dissatisfaction |
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| Internal/external control of reinforcement (locus of control) |
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| individual’s belief that his or her behavior is self-determined (internal control) or determined by outside factors (external control) |
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| Rotter’s basic assumptions |
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| most of our behavior is learned and is acquired through our experiences with other people |
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| How personality develops according to Rotter (e.g., stimulus generalization) |
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| stimulus generalization occurs, so that other people who resemble the parents are perceived and evaluated in the same or similar ways |
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| responses made in the presence of an original stimulus come to be made in the presence of other, similar stimuli |
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| measure the individual’s belief that forces are or are not beyond his or her control |
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| Rotter’s explanation of maladjusted people |
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| characterized by low freedom of movement and high need value; they learn how to avoid or defend themselves against actual or anticipated failure |
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| Rotter’s approach to therapy |
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| therapist’s function is to help these people change expectancies and reinforcement values that do not work |
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| Be able to provide examples of situations where having internal/external locus of control if beneficial/harmful |
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