PSYB30H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Eleanor Maccoby, Femininity, Observational Learning
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Rotter & social learning: the psychological situation, it is the person"s subjective interpretation of the situation, rather than an object array of stimuli, that determines how the person will behave (i. e. , that has meaning to the person) Any situation that perceives to be real, will be real: wanted to know the type of behaviour in any situation, expectancy (e) Subjective probability that a given behaviour will lead to a given outcome. If i do this, then that will happen. If x happens then y will occur: reinforcement value (rv) Desirability of that outcome: all of us attach some value to a possible outcome, some value it more, some value it less but whatever your case is that is the value you assign that outcome. Intentions have causal properties: triadic reciprocal causation. Person (p), environment (e), behaviour (b: bandura says that all the elements affect each other. Causal arrows going across each elements: fortuitous determinants in causal structures.
