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Social Learning Theories
Limitations of Behaviorism:
1. ignores motivation, thought, and cognition
2. based on research with animals
3. ignores social dimensions of learning
4. treats the organism as passive
Dollard & Miller โ attempted to blend Freud's psychodynamic theory with
behaviorist learning theory
- coined the term "social learning theory"
- stress the role of learning in personality over structure
- structure of personality can be defined as habits
Habits โ learned associations between a stimulus and a response
- a temporary structure
- acquired during drive reduction
Primary drives โ associated with physiological processes
Secondary drives - "elaborations" on the primary drives
Primary reinforcers โ reduce primary drives
Secondary reinforcers โ originally neutral
- acquire reward value through association with primary reinforcers
Habit hierarchy (Hierarchy of Response) โ list of possible responses within
a given situation
- learned on the basis of what has worked in the past
The Learning process
Drive โ stimulus impelling a person to act
- does not direct or specify behavior
Cue โ specific stimulus
- tells when, where and how to respond
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