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Overview: The theory of B.F. Skinner is based upon the idea that learning is a function of change in overt behavior. Changes in behavior are the result of an individual's response to events (stimuli) that occur in the environment. A response produces a consequence such as defining a word, hitting a ball, or solving a math problem. When a particular StimulusResponse (S-R) pattern is reinforced (rewarded), the individual is conditioned to respond. The distinctive characteristic of operant conditioning relative to previous forms of behaviorism (e.g., Thorndike, Hull) is that the organism can emit responses instead of only eliciting response due to an external stimulus. Reinforcement is the key element in Skinner's S-R theory. A reinforcer is anything that strengthens the desired response. It could be verbal praise, a good grade or a feeling of increased accomplishment or satisfaction. The theory also covers negative reinforcers -any stimulus that results in the increased frequency of a response when it is withdrawn (different from adversive stimuli -- punishment -- which result in reduced responses). A great deal of attention was given to schedules of reinforcement (e.g. interval versus ratio) and their effects on establishing and maintaining behavior. One of the distinctive aspects of Skinner's theory is that it attempted to provide behavioral explanations for a broad range of cognitive phenomena. For example, Skinner explained drive (motivation) in terms of deprivation and reinforcement schedules. Skinner (1957) tried to account for verbal learning and language within the operant conditioning paradigm, although this effort was strongly rejected by linguists and psycholinguists. Skinner (1971) deals with the issue of free will and social control. Scope/Application: Operant conditioning has been widely applied in clinical settings (i.e., behavior modification) as well as teaching (i.e., classroom management) and instructional development (e.g., programmed instruction). Parenthetically, it should be noted that Skinner rejected the idea of theories of learning (see Skinner, 1950). Example: By way of example, consider the implications of reinforcement theory as applied to the development of programmed instruction (Markle, 1969; Skinner, 1968) 1. Practice should take the form of question (stimulus) - answer (response) frames which expose the student to the subject in gradual steps 2. Require that the learner make a response for every frame and receive immediate feedback
3. Try to arrange the difficulty of the questions so the response is always correct and hence a positive reinforcement 4. Ensure that good performance in the lesson is paired with secondary reinforcers such as verbal praise, prizes and good grades. Principles: 1. Behavior that is positively reinforced will reoccur; intermittent reinforcement is particularly effective 2. Information should be presented in small amounts so that responses can be reinforced ("shaping") 3. Reinforcements will generalize across similar stimuli ("stimulus generalization") producing secondary conditioning References: Markle, S. (1969). Good Frames and Bad (2nd ed.). New York: Wiley. Skinner, B.F. (1950). Are theories of learning necessary? Psychological Review, 57(4), 193-216. Skinner, B.F. (1953). Science and Human Behavior. New York: Macmillan. Skinner, B.F. (1954). The science of learning and the art of teaching. Harvard Educational Review, 24(2), 86-97. Skinner, B.F. (1957). Verbal Learning. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts. Skinner, B.F. (1968). The Technology of Teaching. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts. Skinner, B.F. (1971). Beyond Freedom and Dignity. New York: Knopf. Related Web Sites: There are two journals that contain current behaviorist research: The Journal for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior (JEAB) and the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis. While the work reported in these journals is not necessarily Skinnerian, much of it does continue the legacy of Skinner's ideas. A bibliography and access to Skinner's works is provided by the B.F. Skinner Foundation. http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=Skinner&csz=&ei=UTF-8&fr=FP-tab-webt&cop=mss&tab=&toggle=1
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Analytic Thinking
Effective functioning rests heavily on inferences about conditional relations between events that enable people to predict and control those events that are of import to them. Discernment of the predictive rules requires effective cognitive processing of multidimensional information that contains ambiguities and uncertainties. Predictive factors are usually related probabilistically, rather than invariably, to future events, which leaves some degree of uncertainty. Moreover, events are typically multidetermined. The same predictor may contribute to different effects, and the same effect may have multiple predictors. This introduces ambiguity as to what is likely to lead to what. In ferreting out predictive rules, people must draw on their preexisting knowledge to generate hypotheses about predictive factors, to weight and integrate them into composite rules, to test their judgments against the results of their actions, and to remember which notions they had tested and how well they had worked. It requires a strong sense of efficacy to remain task oriented in the face of evaluative threats and judgmental failures. People who believe strongly in their problem-solving capabilities remain highly efficient in their analytic thinking in complex decision-making situations ( Bandura & Wood,
1989 ; Wood & Bandura, 1989 , in press ). Those who are plagued by self-doubts are erratic in their analytic thinking. Quality of analytic thinking, in turn, determines the level of performance accomplishments.
Cognitive Motivation
A major source of human motivation is rooted in cognitive activity. In cognitively generated motivation, people motivate themselves and guide their actions anticipatorily through the exercise of forethought. They anticipate likely outcomes of prospective actions, set goals for themselves, and plan courses of action designed to realize valued futures. Future events cannot be causes of current motivation or action. However, by cognitive representation in the present, conceived future events are converted into current motivators and regulators of behavior. Forethought embodying cognized goals is translated into incentives and action through the aid of self-regulatory mechanisms ( Bandura, 1988a ). Personal goal setting is influenced by self-appraisal of capabilities. The stronger the perceived self-efficacy, the higher the goals that people set for themselves and the firmer their commitment to those goals ( Bandura & Wood, 1989 ; Locke, Frederick, Lee, & Bobko, 1984 ; Taylor, Locke, Lee, & Gist, 1984 ; Wood & Bandura, in press ). Challenging goals raise the level of motivation and performance attainments ( Locke, Shaw, Saari, & Latham, 1981 ; Mento, Steel, & Karren, 1987 ). Goals and internal standards operate largely through self-referent processes rather than regulate motivation and action directly. Goals motivate by enlisting self-evaluative involvement in the activity. People seek self-satisfactions from fulfilling valued goals and are prompted to intensify their efforts by discontent with substandard performances. Perceived self-efficacy also plays an influential role in the exercise of personal control over motivation. It is partly on the basis of self-beliefs of efficacy that people choose what challenges to undertake, how much effort to expend in the endeavor, and how long to persevere in the face of difficulties ( Bandura, 1986 ; 1988a ). The stronger the belief in their capabilities, the greater and more persistent are their efforts. When they achieve substandard performances, people who have self-doubts about their capabilities slacken
their efforts or abort their attempts prematurely, whereas those who have a strong belief in their capabilities exert greater effort to master the challenge ( Bandura & Cervone, 1983 ; 1986 ; Cervone & Peake, 1986 ; Jacobs, Prentice-Dunn, & Rogers, 1984 ; Weinberg, Gould, & Jackson, 1979 ). Strong perseverance pays off in performance accomplishments.
The articles included in this special series extend the application of self-efficacy theory to the cognitive domain of human memory. Depending on their nature, the cognitive, affective, and motivational processes activated by self-beliefs of efficacy can enhance or impair memory performance.
ability confounds perceived efficacy influences, other motivational contributors, and ability factors. Because self-efficacy influences are autocorrelated, unadjusted control for past performance will also remove effects that are due to self-efficacy influences in current performance. When multiple assessments are made, the overcontrol via past performance can be avoided by removing the contribution of perceived self-efficacy from the past performance ( Wood, Bandura, & Bailey, in press ). Development of useful tools of measurement often accelerates scientific progress. Berry, West, and Dennehey (1989 , pp. 701713) have devised a psychometrically sound set of self-efficacy scales that accord well with guidelines from self-efficacy theory and methodology. They include several valuable features. Separate self-efficacy scales are devised for different types of memory. The intercorrelations corroborate that the set of scales represents a common domain but taps different dimensions of memory. They measure gradations of self-efficacy strength rather than just categorical judgments of whether one can execute a given level of memory performance. The scales are highly reliable and they account for a good share of the variance in memory performance. The scale format can be easily extended to other types of memory. Berry and colleagues also tested whether the format in which the scale items are presented has an effect on self-efficacy judgment. The initial reference points in a sequence of items can have an anchoring influence on self-efficacy judgments ( Peake & Cervone, in press ). The authors found that a descending format, ordering the items from most to least difficult task demands, tended to produce slightly higher self-efficacy appraisals than did an ascending or random order (the latter two did not differ from each other). Because the ascending order of presentation does not bias self-efficacy judgment, it should be the preferred format.
their personal deficiencies, the formidableness of the task, and adverse consequences of failure. Such perturbing thinking further undermines their efforts and analytic thinking by diverting attention from how best to execute activities to concerns over personal deficiencies and possible calamities. Failure experiences sap their motivation. They do not exert much cognitive effort in processing information and decrease their efforts and give up quickly in the face of difficulties. They are also slow to recover their sense of efficacy following failure or setbacks. Because they are prone to diagnose insufficient performance as deficient aptitude, it does not require all that much failure for them to lose faith in their capabilities. They fall easy victims to stress and depression. In contrast, a resilient sense of efficacy enhances sociocognitive functioning in the relevant domain in many ways. People who have high assurance in their capabilities approach difficult tasks as challenges to be mastered rather than as threats to be avoided. Such an affirmative orientation fosters interest and engrossing involvement in activities. They set themselves challenging goals and maintain strong commitment to them. They are active cognitive processors of information and remain highly efficient in their analytic thinking in complex decision situations. They heighten their efforts in the face of failures or setbacks. They ascribe failure to insufficient effort, which supports a success orientation. They quickly recover their sense of efficacy after failures or setbacks. They approach potential stressors or threats with assurance that they can exercise some control over them. Such an efficacious outlook enhances the level of cognitive functioning and performance accomplishments, reduces stress, and lowers vulnerability to depression. Indeed, in analyses of the cognitive mediators of efficacy effects, Berry (1987) has shown that people with efficacious self-beliefs are active producers of good memory performances through enlistment of attentional and cognitive resources and not simply passive predictors of their memory performances without any intervening agentive effort. In short, they make things happen rather than just passively observe their behavioral happenings.
722728) to evaluate how this aspect of health as well as a number of medical problems influence changes in intellectual performance and perceived intellectual competence. Perceived personal locus of health control declined over the longitudinal period. Good health, as indexed by few health problems, was accompanied by good maintenance of perceived and actual intellectual competence. Domain-linked efficacy scales have been shown to be more predictive of changes in health behavior than perceived locus of health control ( Alagna & Reddy, 1984 ; Beck & Lund, 1981 ; Brod & Hall, 1984 ; Kaplan, Atkins, & Reinsch, 1984 ; Walker & Franzini, 1983 ). General items linked to particular activity domains are an improvement over omnibus measures that are disembodied from clearly defined activities and contextual factors. But ill-defined items still sacrifice explanatory and predictive power even though they may be tied to a designated domain. Relations obtained with suboptimal measures may underestimate or misrepresent the causal contribution of given factors. Lachman and Leff acknowledge this problem in reviewing evidence from studies showing that generalized scales fail to reveal any age differences where more sensitive domain-linked scales do. These issues of level of multidimensionality and the degree of fit to the measures of competency also arise in the assessment of perceived intellectual efficacy. Lachman and Leff measure it in terms of perceived capability to perform everyday cognitive tasks and to learn new things. Intellectual performance is assessed by vocabulary and inductive reasoning. To the extent that the test of perceived self-efficacy measures different cognitive functions than those measured by the performance test, one would not expect self-beliefs and performance to bear much relation to each other. We saw earlier that selfbeliefs of efficacy predict performance when they both tap similar cognitive functions. The conclusion of Lachman and Leff that influence flows unidirectionally from performance to self-belief may well reflect mismatch in the cognitive functions assessed. Long temporal disparity between self-appraisal of efficacy and performance is another factor that may misrepresent the relationship between these factors. Behavior is regulated by proximal self-beliefs rather than by those held years ago, unless they have remained unchanged in the interim. Lachman and Leff correlated memory performance with selfbeliefs of memory capabilities assessed years earlier. Because the self-correlations of efficacy judgments over this period are only of moderate magnitude, the dated ones may have little bearing on the issue of whether self-beliefs of memory capabilities affect memory performance. The correlational findings of Rebok and Balcerak, using corresponding microanalytic measures and a more proximal assessment of perceived selfefficacy, reveal a bidirectionality of influence between self-belief of efficacy and performance accomplishments. These findings are in accord with a substantial body of evidence of similar reciprocal causation in other domains of competency ( Bandura, 1986 ). Use of domain-linked scales does not mean that there is no generality to perceived selfefficacy. If different classes of activities require similar functions and subskills, one would expect some generality in judgments of self-efficacy. Even if different activity
domains are not subserved by common subskills, some generality of perceived selfefficacy can occur if development of competencies is socially structured so that the cultivation of skills in dissimilar domains covaries. Commonality of subskills and covariation of development will yield generality. Multidomain measures reveal the patterning and degree of generality of people's sense of personal efficacy. One can derive degree of generality from multidomain scales, but one cannot extract the patterning of perceived personal efficacy from conglomerate omnibus tests.
more time they devoted to processing memory tasks cognitively ( Berry, 1987 ). Higher processing effort, in turn, produced better memory performance. In the analysis of the causal structure, perceived self-efficacy affects actual memory performance both directly and indirectly through level of cognitive effort. Those who regard memory as an inherent capacity that declines with biological aging have little reason to try to exercise control over their memory functioning. They are quick to read instances of normal forgetting as indicants of declining cognitive capacity. The more they disbelieve their memory capabilities, the poorer use they make of their cognitive capabilities. The negative cultural stereotyping of the elderly can foster a sense of declining cognitive capability. In the elderly, the undermining effects of perceived self-inefficacy may also be affectively mediated. Major life changes in later years are brought about by retirement, relocation, physical infirmities, and loss of friends or spouses. Such changes place demands on interpersonal skills to cultivate new social relationships that can contribute to positive functioning and personal well-being. Perceived social inefficacy increases the vulnerability of older people to stress and depression, both directly and indirectly, by impeding development of social supports that serve as a buffer against life stressors ( Holahan & Holahan, 1987a , 1987b ). Growing physical infirmities and perceived inability to fulfill valued performance standards that were achievable at an earlier time can also be highly depressing. Perceived self-efficacy and depressive mood affect each other bidirectionally. Two biasing processes have been postulated on how mood can influence self-efficacy judgment. According to the affective-priming theory proposed by Bower, past successes and failures are stored as memories along with their affect ( Bower, 1983 ). The set of memories provides the data base on which judgmental processes operate. Mood activates, through an associative mood network, the subset of memories congruent with it. Thus, negative mood activates the failure subset, whereas positive mood activates the success subset. The spread of activation from the emotion node makes mood-congruent memories salient. Self-appraisal of efficacy is enhanced by selective recall of past successes, but diminished by recall of failures. In the cognitive-priming view, specific successes or failures that induce the affect also produce cognitions that cue thoughts of other past successes and failures. This view places greater emphasis on the thought content of the inducing event than on the aroused affect as the primer of other positive or negative thoughts. Cognitive availability biases self-efficacy judgment. Kavanagh and Bower (1985) have shown that, indeed, induced positive mood enhances perceived self-efficacy, whereas despondent mood diminishes it. The impact of induced mood on self-efficacy judgment is widely generalized across diverse domains of functioning. There is some evidence to indicate that mood-inducing events exert their influence on self-efficacy judgment more through affective than through cognitive priming ( Kavanagh, 1983 ). Depressive rumination impairs ability to initiate and sustain adaptive activities. The findings of West, Berry, and Powlishta (1989) lend some support to the view that perceived self-efficacy can operate on memory functioning through an affective modality. Depression was accompanied by perceived memory inefficacy, which, in turn, was associated with deficient memory performances. The decline in perceived self-
efficacy and intellectual performance associated with impaired health reported by Lachman and Leff may have arisen through the depression modality rather than through a physical modality.
beliefs that are conducive to optimal utilization of skills can also contribute to staying power. Successful efficacy builders do more than convey positive appraisals. In addition to raising people's beliefs in their capabilities, they structure mastery tasks for them in ways that bring success and avoid placing them prematurely in situations where they are likely to fail.
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