Applications of a Social Learning Theory of Personality

B. Rotter, Julian, June E. Chance und E. Jerry Phares:

ISBN 10: 0030831830 / ISBN 13: 9780030831836

Published by New York : Holt Rinehart and Winston, 1972

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624 Seiten Good condition. Reading pages are clean and without marks. Retired library exemplar, with the usual marking. Book shows slight signs of storage and usage. No dust jacket. Cover foiled with self-adhesive protective film. Spine lightly edged. Still good copy. 9780030831836 Altersfreigabe FSK ab 0 Jahre Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1001.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Applications of a Social Learning Theory of Personality
• Publisher: New York : Holt Rinehart and Winston
• Publication Date: 1972
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0030831830
• ISBN 13: 9780030831836
• Binding: Hardcover
• Seller catalogs:
  • Soziologie

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Synopsis

In recent years more and more psychologists interesteed in human behavior are turning to theories which deal at a more molar level with the complex behavior of people in complex environments. While theories based on lower animals responding to relatively simple stimuli or stimuli complexes may have been valuable as a starting point for understanding human behavior, they are too limited to provide much in the way of prediction or understanding of an organism which is constantly abstracting his experience, uses language to classify new experiences and reclassify old experience, weighs probabilities, and is motivated primarily by goals that depend more on ideas than they do on reducing organic drives