In brief, socially desirable behaviors are typically those which conform to group standards, and the deviant behaviors which define psychopathology are usually socially undesirable. Accordingly, the tendency for MMPI scales to load inversely to social desirability on the primary factor is a consequent ...
This debate largely derives from differences in how investigators define the term “imitation” as well as the range of behavioral outcomes that this phenomenon encompasses (see Byrne, 2002). For example, does the exact action of the demonstrator have to be mimicked or is it more important ...
Social cognitive theory is rooted in a view of human agency in which individuals are proactively engaged in their own development and can make things happen by their actions. Individuals are imbued with certain capabilities that define what it is to be human. Primary among these are the capabilit...
William Hoppitt and Kevin Laland define the mechanisms thought to underlie social learning and demonstrate how to distinguish them experimentally in the laboratory. They present techniques for detecting and quantifying social learning in nature, including statistical modeling of the spatial distribution of...
aggression can be explained in more than one way‚ and that these ways often conflict. These different explanations are what provide psychology with its unique perspective on understanding human behaviour. As you have seen‚ aggression is a term that is not easy to define‚ and why t...
But before we can do that we first need to define collaborative learning. Is it just a synonym for social learning or does it have its own unique identity? Does the nature of time play a role? Collaborative Learning 133 Collaborative Learning Collaboration Roles Social 133 Collaborative ...
But if we define religion as world religion, which is transgenerational and trans-regional, then we can be confident that we are dealing with something that shapes our global environments. The term ‘hyper-place’ signals the sense of visceral belonging which holds together international religious ...
Define the word emotion, and ask students to explain why they think it is good to be able to identify their emotion and the emotions of others (another think-pair-share here typically evokes a better discussion). After reading, zoom in on each color/emotion over the course of a week or...
individual differences were thought to be expressed in the profile of responses in different contexts. That is, some people tended to be outgoing in a particular context, but not another. Rather than define personality from a nomothetic trait perspective using an average (expected) response collapsed...
(3) solving problems. In terms of social interactions, the term script is used to define a schema for events (e.g., what a person might expect to do in a given situation). Individual social experiences are called self-schemata, while self-schemata are a sub-group of all social schemata...