PSYCH 2B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Walter Mischel, Trait Theory, Experimental Psychology
13 Apr 2018
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Cognitive social learning theory: bandura and walter mischel. Thorndike- instrumental conditioning: emphasized role of learning. Streams of in uence: digital computer (analogy, radar operators: problem with selective attention thats why the operators didn"t catch the bombers, multi-store model of memory: information coming into be stored, lost or passed onto other processes. Changed the behaviourist notion that we must talk about input-output relations and mind now seen as welters of programs. This approach was applied to personality; cognitive approach on personality focused on the ways people interpret and think about events around them. Bobo doll- social learning of aggression experiment. Argued that children can learn without being reinforced- departure from classical learning theory. Involves social or observational form of learning. Correlation between observed behaviour and traits was . 30. If trials really guided behaviour then we should see a strong correlation: behaviour isn"t as consistent as the trait theory said.
