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- Bandura Bobo Doll
- Social cognitive theory
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•Cognitive factors versus more than immediate reinforcements
•Expectations of future events are major determinants |
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Five Hypotheses of Social Learning Theory |
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•humans interact with their meaningful environments; they perceive the meaning based on personal characteristics
•human personality is learned; can be modified
•personality has a basic unity; has some sense of stability
•motivation is goal directed
•people are capable of anticipating events; capable of changing personality based on situations |
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Four Variables of Predicting Behaviour |
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- Behaviour Potential
- Expectancy
- Reinforcement Value
- Psychological Situation
- Formula: the potential for a behavior to occur in a particular situation in relation to a given reinforcement is a function of people's expectancy that their behavior will be followed by that reinforcement in that situation.
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•a particular response will occur at a given time and place in relation to its likely reinforcement; certain set of responses to a specific environment and likeliness is based on previous reinforcement |
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•Confidence that a particular reinforcement will follow a specific behavior in a specific or general situation(s). ; i.e. study hard and get an A leads to expecting an A again in that class or in all classes |
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•Person's preference for any particular reinforcement; i.e. all candies are a dollar, but you pick the one you like most
•Internal reinforcement(what the person wants) versus external reinforcement (what society wants)
•Reinforcement-reinforcement sequences
•value of an event is a function of one's expectation that a particular reinforcement will lead to future reinforcements. ; current reinforcements may lead to a bigger future reinforcement |
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•that part of the external and internal world to which a person is responding |
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•one must know people's generalized expectancies, or their expectations based on similar past experiences that a given behavior will be reinforced |
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Recognition Status (Category of Needs) |
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to be recognized for one's worth |
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Dominance (Category of Needs) |
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need to have power over people |
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Independence (Category of Needs) |
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Protection-Dependence (Category of Needs) |
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to have others take care of us |
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Love and Affection (Category of Needs) |
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Physical Comfort (Category of Needs) |
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•(1) need potential; possible occurance of related behaviours to get a goal
•(2) freedom of movement; expect certain outcomes in order to satisfy needs
•(3) need value; valuing a reinforcement over another |
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Internal and External Control of Reinceforcement Scale |
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attempts to measure the degree to which people perceive a causal relationship between their own efforts and environmental consequences. |
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measures the extent to which a person expects the word or promise of another person to be true. |
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•Maladaptive behavior as any persistent behavior that fails to move a person closer to a desired goal.
•It is usually the result of unrealistically high goals in combination with low ability to achieve them or inadequate skills |
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•Goals: to achieve harmony between a client's freedom of movement and need value.
•Changing Goals
•Maladaptive behaviors follow from three categories of inappropriate goals: (1) conflict between goals, (2) destructive goals, and (3) unrealistically lofty goals.
•Eliminating Low Expectancies
•In helping clients change low expectancies of success, Rotter uses a variety of approaches |
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