Mischel's Social Learning Theory
Mischel’s social learning theory was used in the evaluation of Frida Kahlo and righteously so. Kahlo embodied the idea that people learn from their life experiences. Kahlo’s father showed her many photographs he took of the Mexican indigenous culture, and in turn Kahlo expressed these views in her own personality. Looking into the personal construct theory, Richard Nixon is a prime example of the views George Kelly had. Nixon’s decisions showed the key points of Kelly’s theory. The theory states that we interpret experiences in a way that only we can. In other words, no other person will interpret the same event exactly as you do. During the Watergate scandal, Nixon interpreted the consequences and upcoming events as far too great to overcome.
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Bandura’s Bobo doll experiment showed just this. The children were shown a video of a woman beating up a bobo doll. She hit, kicked, and punched the doll all while yelling aggressively at it. After seeing the video, children were released to go play in a room that had the bobo doll from the video. The children were observed doing all of the things to the doll that the woman was doing in the video. In comparison to today’s world, the bobo doll video is similar to video games or violent TV shows. In my personal experience, I have observed three year olds in my class act out the moves of the Ninja Turtles. I have also seen well-behaved children regress due to the exposure of children who misbehave. A child who transitioned into my class after just turning three had a habit of throwing their shoes once sat in time-out. Weeks later, I witnessed this same behavior with another child who had been in my class for almost a year who was turning four in the upcoming month. Children will mimic and learn from the behaviors they are exposed to, whether they are positive or negative. The article I found is titled “Whatever became of George Kelly? Applications and implications”. This article reviews personal construct psychology and how Kelly’s theories are mainly used and referenced in industrial and organizational psychology as well as more widely accepted in Britain. These are both the case due to Kelly’s rejection of humanistic theories and his insistence that the individual’s ability to effectively interpret events are the basis of personal
Bandura’s Bobo doll experiment showed just this. The children were shown a video of a woman beating up a bobo doll. She hit, kicked, and punched the doll all while yelling aggressively at it. After seeing the video, children were released to go play in a room that had the bobo doll from the video. The children were observed doing all of the things to the doll that the woman was doing in the video. In comparison to today’s world, the bobo doll video is similar to video games or violent TV shows. In my personal experience, I have observed three year olds in my class act out the moves of the Ninja Turtles. I have also seen well-behaved children regress due to the exposure of children who misbehave. A child who transitioned into my class after just turning three had a habit of throwing their shoes once sat in time-out. Weeks later, I witnessed this same behavior with another child who had been in my class for almost a year who was turning four in the upcoming month. Children will mimic and learn from the behaviors they are exposed to, whether they are positive or negative. The article I found is titled “Whatever became of George Kelly? Applications and implications”. This article reviews personal construct psychology and how Kelly’s theories are mainly used and referenced in industrial and organizational psychology as well as more widely accepted in Britain. These are both the case due to Kelly’s rejection of humanistic theories and his insistence that the individual’s ability to effectively interpret events are the basis of personal