PPE 3003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Albert Bandura, Explanatory Style, Turing Test
13 Aug 2016
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Father was a village priest: pavlov went to seminary, read origin of species: abdandoned reiligious career to study physic and math. Self efficacy results from: past success and failures, vicarious expereinces, verbal persuasion, emotional reactions. Intense emotional reactions do often get labeled, and often they get labeled with what a person is feeling at the time. Not true: but if you do believe you can do something you are so much more likely to be able to do something. Cognitive approach: development in cognitive aspects: research on explanatory style, optimism and depression; learning disabilities receive much attention. People as information processors o similar to how computers manipulate information. Shortcomings of artificial intelligence: turing test. Advantages: explains personality through uniquely human proceses of cognition, captures the activ nature of human thought, differences in cognitive skills are viewed as central to individuality.
