PSYCH 2B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Donald Broadbent, Kenneth Spence, Walter Mischel
7 Dec 2018
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Albert bandura and walter mischel: cognitive social learning theory: History of behaviourism: john b. watson: radical behaviourism: Reacting to inconsistent and messy introspection must focus on objective, repeatable data-aka behaviour: all references to internal processes (such as feeling) should be banished for objective statements about observables. Should search for relationships between environmental variables and observable behaviours: all behaviour is derived from the environment through process of learning. Focussed on classical conditioning: e. l thorndike: instrumental conditioning, clark hull & kenneth spence: grand learning theory or behavioural theory, b. f skinner: radical behaviourism returns: * positive reinforcement schedules: he agrees that we should look at functional relationships between stimuli and responses, not try to understand internal mediators. Believes in importance of environment, through learning and experience in general, in shaping behaviour. Skinner notes that trait descriptions actually give a verbal label to behaviours that are related or similar-personality is nothing but these behaviours.
