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Comm 200 Exam 2 Questions And Answers
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What are behavioral theories? Why were early theories in the social
sciences (psychology) behavioral theories? ANS✔✔ Behavioral theories are
theories that deal with observable causes/effects
They do not assume psych variables
Stimulus-response model
Describe the three steps of the Classical Conditioning Model (Pavlov).
Provide a communication example.
Show how the three steps of the model apply to your example. ANS✔✔
Three steps of classical conditioning model:
a) US→UR
b) US+CS→UR
c) CS→CR
Example:
US=dad coming home
UR= get excited
CS= hearing car in garage
CR=get excited
Kid loves his dad and gets excited when he comes home. He starts to
realize that hearing the garage door open indicates that his dad is home.
Now, in anticipation, he gets excited when he hears the garage door open.
The garage door is the conditioned stimulus. His excitement to the sound of
the garage door opening is the conditioned response
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Describe the essential aspects of the Operant Conditioning Model (Skinner).
Provide a communication example using this model. ANS✔✔ Essential
aspects: to see how an effect can increase or decrease by reward or
punishment
concerned with behavior and increasing/decreasing it
S→organism→R
This is the paradigm of the psych perspective
Example: Penny and Sheldon (chocolate for good behavior)
What is the major difference between the Classical and Operant models?
How do these two models differ from the theories presented in the chapter?
ANS✔✔ Major difference between operant and classical: operant doesn't
care about the stimulus
All of the theories in Chapter 3 of the text are cognitive theories. What are
cognitive theories? Describe why cognitive theories developed from
behavioral theories. What are the steps leading to the acceptance of
cognitive theories? ANS✔✔ unlike cognitive theories, behavioral theories
look at a stimulus and response
(mech perspective S—R). Cog looks at psych perspective (s→o→r)
Cognitive model arose after asking how variables associated with the
person's responding produced the different responses
steps:
a) a causal cog variable such as attitude is hypothesized to exist
b) a scale to measure person's attitude toward attitude object (chocolate ice
cream) is constructed
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c) Ss who have opp attitudes exhibit different behaviors toward attitude
object, cog variable is accepted as legitimate scientific variable
Attribution Theory (Heider) (Jones and Davis) (Kelley).
What is attribution? ANS✔✔ Attribution theory: explains the cognitive
process involved when trying to make a causal explanation for a person's
behavior. The judgements we make about reasons for behavior are
attributions
Get good grades → studied hard
Bad grade → auditorium was too cold
People tend to attribute their own success to internal variables and others'
success to external variables
What are Heider's (Attributions as Naïve Psychology) two attributions?
ANS✔✔ Dispositional: personality, character, bio traits. Relatively stable and
unique
Situational: external factors determined by environment or specific
circumstance
Name and briefly describe Jones and Davis' (Correspondent Inference
Theory) 6 attributions to determine if a person's behavior is dispositional.
ANS✔✔ Correspondent inference theory: extended Heider's; proposed
explanations for dispositional attributes. when perceiver makes dispositional
attribution, also makes judgements.
Attributes: when someone makes a judgment about disposition, they infer:
1. intention choice
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