PSYC 10a Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Julian Rotter, Biofeedback, Clinical Psychology
25 Oct 2016
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Each person has a tendency to believe that what follows in time has a lawful relation. Instrumental learning: we believe the behavior is instrumental in obtaining a response from our surroundings/ the environment. It does not have to cause reinforcement or punishment for the behavior to be learned. A star baseball player loaned a mediocre baseball player his bat for a game, and the mediocre baseball hit more balls than he had before. This (cid:272)ould (cid:271)e (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause he (cid:271)elie(cid:448)ed he (cid:449)ould do (cid:271)ette(cid:396) (cid:271)y ha(cid:448)i(cid:374)g the sta(cid:396) (cid:271)ase(cid:271)all playe(cid:396)"s. Classical: ucs is presented regardless of what the organism does. Internal locus of control: julian rotter argued that we develop a sense over time whether the outcome we want is under our control or not. External locus of control: the outcome we want is out of our control. People who have higher levels of internal locus of control tend to be healthier.
