PSC 162 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Social Learning Theory, Learned Helplessness, Associationism
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Psc 162: personality puzzle ch. 14- learning to be a person: behaviorism and the social. Behavior changes as a result of experience. Learning: the process of changing behavior as a function of experience. Behaviorism: believed the best vantage point for understanding a person is from the outside. All knowledge worth having comes from direct, public observation. The only valid way to know about somebody is to watch what he does. Environment refers to the rewards and punishments in the physical and social world. Experience is the direct product of reality itself, in this way the structure of reality determines personality (at birth the mind is empty) Rationalism: the structure of our mind determines our experience of reality. Associationism: any two things, including ideas, become mentally associated as one if they are repeatedly experienced close together in time. Ex. lightning flashes, then thunder booms; the bell rings, then you are fed.
