Explain how learning theories influence perception of interpersonal relationships. The belief that environmental forces determine how new behave is best seen in the work of B. F. Skinner. He argued that nearly all behavior is directly governed by environmental contingencies of reinforcement. In his view, to explain behavior we need only analyze the functional relations between observable action and observable consequences (Hjelle & Ziegler, 1992). Skinner believed that psychology must not explain behavior on the basis of physiological or constitutional components of the organism but rather on the basis of environmental stimuli (Feist & Feist, 2010). Skinner also assumed that all behavior is lawfully determined, predictable, and able to e brought under environmental control (Hjelle & Ziegler, 1992).
Bandura believed that psychological functioning is best understood in terms of a continuous reciprocal interplay among behavioral, cognitive, and environmental influences. In terms of behavior, personal factors, and social forces all operate as interlocking determinants of one another-that behavior is influenced by the environment but that people also play an active role in creating the social milieu and other circumstances that arise in their daily transactions. The most distinctive feature of Bandrsa’s social cognitive theory is the belief that most human behavior is learned through observation or by example. Social cognitive theory proposes hat modeling influences generate learning chiefly through their informative function. During exposure, observers (learners), acquire mainly symbolic representations of the modeled activities which serve as prototypes for both appropriate and inappropriate behavior (Hjelle & Ziegler, 1992). Rotter’s main focus on social learning theory is the prediction of human behavior in relatively specific situations. To accurately predict