Flashcards in Social cognitive Learning theory Deck (10)
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What did Walter Mischel say about personality traits and what did he propose instead?
- personality "trait" scores = very bad correlation/ reliability
- CAP
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What is CAP?
Cognitive-Affective Personality
- BEHAVIOUR is best predicted from a comprehensive understanding of the person, the situation and the interaction between person and situation
- since there may be variation in certain "traits" depending on the situation
- behaviour signature
--> intraindividual profiles for verbal and physical aggression for one person
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What are behaviour signatures?
People's pattern of variability is the behavioral signature of their personality, or their stable pattern of behaving differently in various situations.
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Why do some people thing Walter Mische is making an over generalised statement?
false dichotomy:
- trait assessments can 'allow for' person situation interactions
- vis primary + smaller traits
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What are the distinguishing features of the social cognitive theory?
Emphasis is on...
- social origins of behaviour
- cognitive processes
- people as active agents
-complex behaviour learning (w/ absence of direct rewards
- systematic research
- behaviour as consistently 'situation specific'
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Describe classical conditioning
1. CS == a bell or something
2. US == something natural == UR
3. Pair the CS + US == UR
4. Eventually just the CS == CR (UR)
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Describe operant conditioning
- behaviours are more likely to be repeated when followed by welcomed outcomes (+/- reinforcement)
- behaviours are less likely to be repeated when followed by an unwelcome outcome "punished"
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What new avenues did Albert Bandura's social cognitive theory add to the learning theories?
- vicarious conditioning
- observational learning
- competencies + cognitions
- goals + standards
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What evidence is there for vicarious learning?
Berger - 1962
- people witnessed a tone followed by the appearance of another reacting in pain to an electric shock
- these witnesses later exhibited a conditional emotional response to the tone
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