PSYC 4520 1st Edition Lecture 24Outline of Last Lecture I. Operant ConditioningA. What is operant conditioning?B. The Skinner boxC. ShapingD. Generalization and discriminationII. Application: Behavior ModificationA. Behavior modificationB. Classical conditioning applicationsC. Operant conditioning applicationsIII. Social Learning TheoryA. Social learning theoryOutline of Current Lecture I. Social Cognitive TheoryA. What is social cognitive theory?Current LectureI. Social Cognitive TheoryA. What is social cognitive theory?These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.i. Psychologist Albert Bandura rejected the behaviorists’ depiction of human beings as passive recipients of whatever stimuli life gives them. Individuals do respond to environmental events and learn behaviors via rewards and punishments, but we have other distinctly human capacities.By reducing the process through which we change/grow to the way a rat learns to press a bar, strict behaviorists overlook important causes of human behavior. Because these overlooked causes generally involve thinking and symbolic processing of information, Bandura called his approach “social-cognitive
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