1. COGNITIVE SOCIAL LEARNING THEORY
WALTER MISCHEL

2. I. Biography b. 2/22/1930 upper middle class
Vienna (Freud's neighborhood)

3. Delayed college entrance due to father's ill health
Nazi invasion
Moved to U.S. (N.Y.)
Delayed college entrance due to father's ill health
Odd jobs

4. Passionately interested
art,
psychology and
GreenwichVillage

5. College
Appalled by rat-centered psych
Freud, existentialist and poetry ==+ humanism

6. M.A. CUNY Clinical
Social Worker exp ==+ reject psychoanalytic

7. Ph.D. Ohio State
Kelly vs. Rotter = Kelly + Rotter

8.
Studied religious cults in Caribbean
delay of gratification
Taught U. of Colo.

9. Allport, Murray, McClelland
1960 Harvard
Allport, Murray, McClelland
m. Harriette Nerlove - cognitive grad student
collaborate on research
3 daughters

10.
Stanford
Bandura

11. Assessment for the Peace Corps
traits not predictive
person can predict (self-efficacy)

12. Now Columbia U.
1982 Distinguished Scientific Contribution

13. II. Consistency Paradox - 1968 Challenge
We believe behavior is consistent but empirical evidence shows much variability
Correlation's too low

14. III. Person x Situation

15. IV. Person Variables
Competencies
Encoding Strategies
Expectancies

16. 1. Competencies - information we acquire about the world and
1. Competencies - information we acquire about the world and our relationship to it.

17. Competencies
a. we construct our version of reality
b. our tools (skills and facts)

18. 2. Encoding strategies - ways of categorizing information received from external stimuli

19. Encoding (cont.)
a. transform stimuli into personal constructs

20. 3. Expectancies - beliefs about the consequences of each of the different behavioral possibilities.

21. a. behavior - outcome expectancy
Expectancies (cont.)
a. behavior - outcome expectancy
reinforcement contingencies

22. b. stimulus- outcome expectancies
Expectancies (cont.)
b. stimulus- outcome expectancies
multitude of stimulus conditions that moderate the probable consequences of any pattern of behavior (cues)

23. Expectancies (cont.)
c. self-efficacy expectations - belief that individual can achieve outcome

24. Expectancies (cont.)
4. Subjective value - preferences for goals

25. Expectancies (cont.)
5. Self-regulatory systems - control of behavior through a system of self-imposed goals and self-produced consequences.

26. Self-regulatory Systems
a. contingency rules that specify the goals, standards and behaviors appropriate for the situation

27. Self-regulatory Systems
b. consequences of achieving or failing to achieve the goal

28. Self-regulatory Systems
c. self-instructions to achieve the self-control needed to reach our goals

29. Self-regulatory Systems
d. plans for achieving our goals in the absence of external support