PSY 340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Disulfiram, Learned Helplessness, Car Alarm
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Learning to be a person: behaviorism and social learning theories. Implies everyone should behave the same in the same environment or situation. Behaviorism: assumptions, people should be studied from the outside, personality is the sum of everything a person does, causes of bx can be directly observed, goal, analyze the causes and effects of behavior to determine. Philosophical roots o behaviorism: empiricism, experience is the direct product of reality, reality determines personality, the structure of the mind and bx. Immediately after: every time it occurs, condition secondary punishing stimuli, avoid mixed messages, dangers of punishment, arousing emotion, difficult to be consistent, difficult to gauge severity of punishment, teaches misuse of power, motivates concealment. Social learning theory: basic behaviorism does not tell the whole story, motivation, thought, and cognition, humans are not passive (change environments, asdfd. Influenced by self-concept (view of oneself made up of judgments)
