PSYC 2120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Verbal Behavior, Social Learning Theory

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2120
• Professor: Ward Struthers

Document Summary

Cogniive approach, which focuses on stereotypes and automaic and controlled processing of informaion. Social learning approach, which focuses on how we learn automaic and controlled responses. Automaic: our immediate, unconscious, negaive reacion to a group or individual members of a group. Controlled: our conscious ability to prevent those immediate negaive reacions from informing our expressed aitudes. We learn by watching others: o o o o. We see their behaviours work and are reinforced. Physical or verbal behaviour intended to hurt someone. Unable to achieve goal = frustrated = acing aggressively.