PSYC 2130 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Walter Mischel, Bungee Jumping, Neal E. Miller
21 Nov 2016
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Learning to be a person: behaviorism and social learning theories. 2 stimuli repeatedly experienced together will eventually elicit the same response. Behaviors followed by pleasant outcomes tend to be repeated, and behaviors followed by unpleasant outcomes tend to be dropped. Both ideas can be reduced to an even simpler idea: behaviour changes as a result of experience. This process is called learning, and the learning based approaches to personality attempt to explain all of the phenomena considered so far. Learning based approaches to personality come in 2 varieties: behaviourism and the social learning theories. An approach to psychology that seems truly scientific has been a major attraction for many psychologists. Despite its early success, some researchers eventually grew dissatisfied with behaviorism(cid:495)s rigidity and with the number of psychological phenomena it ignore. All knowledge worth having comes from direct, public observation.
