In the short story “Up in Michigan” by Hemingway, two characters are put in a stressful situation that greatly portrays their inner personalities. Jim Gilmore is a blacksmith in a small town and frequently ate at D. J. Smith’s where Liz Coates worked. They became fond of each other and then Jim left on a hunting trip. When Jim returned, Liz greeted him and they went off with their friends to celebrate. In the ending scene of the story Jim sexually assaulted Liz while he was intoxicated. Learning theorists might explain Jim’s behavior as social learning through reinforcement. However, on the other side of things, learning theorists might explain Liz’s behavior through Rotter’s theory of locus of control. For example, as Jim and Liz were left alone, Jim began to touch Liz sexually. Liz kept on thinking that she was frightened, but also wanted it to continue further. As the moments passed, Jim continued to push things further even though Liz kept on saying that they should not continue any …show more content…
Rotter might argue that this created Liz to develop more of an external Locus of Control personality, where she believes that she has no control of life situations and whatever happens is going to happen. Even though Liz had the ability to fight back or call for help, she still did not try to stop the situation at hand. I also found it interesting that after she was raped, she still cared for Jim and kissed him on the cheek. This makes me believe that in further sexual situations Liz will be submissive and allow whomever she is with do what they want to do. This learned helplessness might impact Liz in other scenarios in life, such as in marriage or in a career. She now will have the ideology that everything is out of her control, and might become very submissive and unwilling to stand up for
Liz is known for being called “The Dreamer” by many people. She has been a sex slave forever, forced into doing things she never wanted to do. However, though she could be beaten and abused, tortured, or forced into cruel labor, they could never make her stop with her dreams. Along with this, she says that even though she and Amber are literal slaves, many are slaves too, only enslaved to an idea or to a thing. Many characters had been seen enslaved to things, like Denwood being enslaved to the torment of losing his son.
The social learning theory may offer an explanation for why Ridgway, and the Ripper, may have become serial killers. The social learning theory suggests that “behaviours are learnt by observing the behaviour of others” (Jones, 1998:355), therefore if a person witnesses aggressive attitudes, this may increase the chances of that person acting in the same negative manner (Choon Chan, 2012:52).
There was many people who joined the war, some of them were forced to go, and some of them were being choose to go. The author says: “…some of them excited by the adventure, some of them afraid, some of them exhausted from the long night march, some of them looking forward to reaching the sea, where they would be safe.” The author uses the images of the sea to build to peaceful picture on their mind. There was major difference between two characters that are Toby and Paul. Toby is used to wars and everyone knows him, and he has a nickname that is called: "Buffalo", and some of them were calling him "Buff". Paul is new to a war, and he is afraid and no one knows him and he doesn't have a nickname.
According to Albert Bandura, “Fortunately, most human behavior is learned observationally through modeling: from observing others one forms an idea of how new behaviors are performed, and on later occasions this coded information serves as a guide for action” (Bandura) Social learning theory is the idea that people assimilate behavior from those around them by observing. This theory best applies for analyzing and understanding certain serial killer’s motives. In this instance, Richard Ramirez is a perfect subject on applying the social leaning theory to understand the probable reason for his actions. Ramirez known as “The Night Stalker” was a serial killer, burglar, and rapist who earned this nickname by sneaking into people’s homes. I chose this social
Liz made a terrible choice by getting in the car with Maddox. Getting in there was just asking for trouble. This was the main cause for all the problems. There wouldn’t have even been a court case if she didn’t get in the car. If she hadn’t, everything would be fine. The trouble caused could have been avoided.
Elizabeth is a victim in the play but more so than any of the other
The fundamentals of the social learning theory significantly describe offenders and their criminal behavior which is learned based on observation and imitation. A researcher by the name of Albert Bandura along with coworkers tested the social learning theory with several experiments on children and their imitation of aggression based on what they saw and were exposed to. Bandura’s focus was to prove that human behavior such as aggression is learned through social imitations and copying the actions of others. Walters (1966) gives details about the Bobo doll experiment and explains its purpose related to learning a violent behavior based on observation. In the experiment, the tested subjects were children of both sexes, ranging from the ages of three to six years. Some of the children were exposed to a non-aggressive adult, while the other children were placed in a room with an aggressive adult who would both physically and verbally attack the Bobo doll. The control group in the experiment was not exposed to any adult. During the second phase of the experiment, the children were left in a room by themselves with the toys, and watched to see if they would demonstrate the aggressive behavior like that of which they observed adults doing earlier. Walter (1966) describes the results as “children who had been exposed to an aggressive model showed more imitative physical and verbal
As a child, I remember growing up in the beautiful city of Detroit, Michigan. It was clothed with one hundred plus degree summers, 6 feet or more of snow winters. A building called the Renaissance, which housed a rotating restaurant on the Penthouse level. It was the Motor city home of General Motors and the Motown city of music. Growing up there was so much fun and amazing to me. Where we would watch the bright, red, blue, green and yellow fireworks on the Fourth of July at Edgewater Park every summer, participate in community activities at the 4-H club. There were barbecues with our neighbors, one of which had a daughter with the exact first, middle and last name as mine. On the one side of me a lady everyone referred to as Ms. Pat, use to bake fresh yeast bread from scratch, and would always share with me and my sisters. We could smell it while outside playing in the yard and inside the house. Then you had the neighbor across the street with the rough edge to them, where you would hear an argument or two every once in a while, but when Mama needed some help while my stepfather was away in the Army, she could call on Joey and he would always be right there with his "yes ma'am and no ma'am" etiquette. With the memories of all things good from the eyes of a child, seeing everything as
California is the most populated state in the United States as of 2014 with 38.8 million residents. California is one of the most popular states for vacationing and adventures. With more of a variety of places to live, more job opportunities, and more adventures for families and friends, many people choose California to live. Although America has many great places to live, California is the best state to live in. It is just about the only state that is different from one end to the other. Starting at cold northern California that has snow and ski resorts, traveling through Central California where it is warm, and down to southern California where weather is hot and can find the famous beaches and amusement parks.
Albert Bandura is considered the developer of social learning theory, which is also known as social cognitive theory (Corey, 2013; Feist et al., 2013; Thoma et al., 2015). Badura’s theory, while based upon the principles of behaviorism, departs from the traditional behavioral model and leaves room for the exploration of unobservable mental states and their influence on behavior (Corey, 2013; Thoma et al., 2015). Social Cognitive theory bases its theory of learning on two types of learning processes: observational learning and enactive learning (Feist et al., 2013). In contrast to Skinner’s belief that reinforcement is required for learning, Bandura believes that learning is possible simply by observing the behavior of others; while reinforcement facilitates learning, it is not a necessary requirement (Feist et al., 2013). Enactive learning is learning through direct experience, and is similar to the concept of operant conditioning; people determine appropriate behaviors by evaluating their behavior and the potential consequences thereof (Feist et al., 2013). Where behavioral theory adopts the ABC approach to behavior, social cognitive theory uses a BPE approach known as Triadic Reciprocal Causation. In TRC, BPE stands for behavior, person variables, and environment (Feist et al., 2013). Within the TRC, the term person encompasses many variables including memory, judging, anticipation, gender, social position, physical attributes, and planning; the belief is that
Situational Attribution: Believing the cause of a behavior is based on the person’s situation, not their attitude. An example of this in the movie was when Judy found out the reason for predators going savage was due to the flowers, not due to their attitudes or genetics.
Using examples of both classical and operant conditioning, discuss the contributions and limitations of learning theory for the understanding of behaviour (Schacter et al., 2nd Ed, Chapter 6, also see Chapter 1 for historical context)
The two theories discussed here will be the Psychodynamic Theory and the Social Learning Theory. Psychodynamic theories include the wisdom of Freud and Jung. Freud discusses, defense mechanisms, understanding the ego as it relates to rational thinking and the superego in regard to mortality. Whereas the Social Learning Theory includes those works from Bandura, Watson, and Piaget among others. This theory will focus on imitation, observation and modeling another’s behavior to achieve a certain desired outcome. Although their conceptual theories differ, they both reflect, shape, and interpret the very essence of the human psyche and how we have evolved and developed over the years.
Akers’ social learning theory’s basic premise is that deviant behavior is learned. The theory has four components. First is definitions, where a person considers his behavior is normal. Definitions can be general or specific.
The Behavioural approach (also called the learning theory) focuses on the belief that our environment, e.g. people, experiences and learning, influences the development and behaviour of an individual whilst thinking the internal functions, such as thoughts and cognition, are impossible to observe, so they are not apart of the scientific approach to psychology. This theory is also based on the concept of ‘explaining behaviour through observation. Behaviourists assume individuals are born as a blank state (tabula rasa), meaning they do not think biology and cognitive functions influence our behaviour, only our environment does. A large idea that the theory hold is that behaviour can be broken down into stimulus-response units. Stimuli are anything environmental that triggers an individuals’ senses, for example, a student being asked to complete an assignment (stimulus) would respond by completing the assignment. Stimulus-response theories form the basis of classical or operant conditioning, which suggests animals and humans can learn through the relation of a response to any certain stimuli.