JULIAN ROTTER AND WALTER MISCHEL: COGNITIVE SOCIAL LEARNING THEORY

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cognitive factors help shape how people will react to environmental forces.

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Learning Theory

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prime determinants of performance

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one’s expectations of future events

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keys to predicting behavior

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cognition
past histories
expectations of the future

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cognitive factors

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expectancies 
subjective perceptions
values
goals
personal standards

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Rotter’s Social Learning Theory rests on five basic hypotheses:

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human interact with their meaningful environments
human personality is learned
personality has a basic unity
motivation is goal-directed
people are capable of anticipating events

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people’s reaction to environmental stimuli depends on the meaning or importance that they attach to an event

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humans interact with their meaningful environments

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personality can be changed or modified as long as people are capable of learning

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human personality is learned

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personalities possess relative stability

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personality has a basic unity

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human behavior lies in people’s expectations that their behaviors are advancing them toward goals.

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motivation is goal-directed

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define reinforcement as any action, condition, or event which affects the individual’s movement toward a goal

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Empirical Law of Effect

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in specific situations, behavior is estimated by the

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Basic Prediction Formula

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basic prediction formula suggests that the potential for a given behavior to occur is a function of the person’s _____ plus the _____

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Expectancy

Reinforcement Value

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general prediction formula states that need potential is a function of _____ and _____

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Freedom of Movement

Need Value

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refer to the likelihood that a given behavior will occur in a particular situation

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Behavior Potential

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person’s expectation of being reinforced

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Expectancy

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person’s preference for a particular reinforcement

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Reinforcement Value

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complex pattern of cues that a person perceives during a specific time period

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Psychological Situation

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set of expectation that can happen after one can make a choice

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Generalized Expectancies

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any behavior or set of behaviors that people see as moving them in the direction of a goal

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Needs

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six broad categories of needs:

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Recognition-Status 
Dominance 
Independence 
Protection-Dependency 
Love and Affection
Physical Comfort

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a need complex has three essential componenets

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Need Potential
Freedom of Movement
Need Value

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set of behaviors toward a certain goal

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Need Potential

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expectations that if a person performs a set of behaviors it will be reinforced

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Freedom of Movement

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how important it is for a person to achieve a goal or need

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Need Value

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holds that behavior stems from relatively stable personal dispositions and cognitive affective processor interacting with a particular situation

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Cognitive-Affective Personality Theory

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consistently inconsistent

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Consistency Paradox

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the situation has a powerful effect on behavior

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Person-Situation Interaction

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personal factors that can affect behavior

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Cognitive-Affective Units

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cognitivie-affective units include people’s:

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Encoding Strategies
Competencies and Self-regulatory Plans 
Expectancies and Beliefs
Goals and Values
Affective Responses

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their way of construing and categorizing information

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Encoding Strategies

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what they can do and their strategies for doing it

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Competencies and Self-regulatory Plans

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perceived consequences of their actions

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Expectancies and Beliefs

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created by Walter Mischel and Yuichi Shoda

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Cognitive-Affective Personality System

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accounts for variability across situations as well as stability of behavior within a person

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Cognitive-Affective Personality System

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people’s belief that they can or cannot control their lives

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Locus of Control

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the word of another is reliable

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Interpersonal Trust

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actions that fail to move a person closer to a desired goal

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Maladaptive Behavior