PSY 393 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Social Learning Theory, Toilet Training, Neurosis

• School: Syracuse University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 393
• Professor: Jorgensen

Document Summary

Dollard and miller: the beginning of social learning theory. Basic assumptions: psychoanalytic ideas can be merged with learning theory, drive reduction is common to both theoretical positions. Innate and emanate to disruption of homeostasis (e. g. , hunger, pain, and sex,in part) Can be defined in terms of such factors as hours of deprivation or stimulus intensity. Examples: anger guilt sexual preferences: need for power and money. F(cid:396)eud"s (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:272)ept of pleasu(cid:396)e p(cid:396)i(cid:374)(cid:272)iple (cid:396)epla(cid:272)ed (cid:449)ith the reinforcement of drive reduction. Reinforcement: drive reduction: most important type of reinforcement, reinforcement typically exerts influence outside of awareness. Discriminative signals or cues: drive reducing responses are likely to recur when the cues associated with drive are present. Stimulus response theory (s-r: cues and responses more remote in time are not reinforced as strongly as stimuli near the reinforcer of the s-r chain. Learning = strengthening or weakening of s-r links.