Carver And Scheier's Argument From A Social Learning Perspective

Moreover, the learning perspective insists on the environment as a shaper of learning and behavior and not the personal characteristics as cited by Carver& Scheier (58). The environment must be reinforced for a particular desired behavior to continue. In this case therefore the environment that is the corporation did not elicit the desired behavior that would have made Deborah to remain interested in doing research. The environment was undesirable thus extinguishing the behavior.
The perspective also advocates for a social learning orientation. The interactions of individuals are the basic mechanism for learning. It claims that people learn most from others in a social setting through observation. Deborah would have learned the lack of interest from her coworkers. That can be depicted by the fact that they respected her up to and even when she lacked much interest in the research. She might have found that she was the only one working to the benefit of the department and thus through imitative responses she opts for a change. She may have learned the behavior through attention and retained it through rehearsal and the motivation of just being like the other workers. The learning perspective leads to that interpretation of …show more content…
She had learned to work towards achieving the best in every task that she takes only to be hindered in the situation in the department. The department seems as one that works without the aim to earn promotion or raises. These disorientations of workers play part in Deborah’s development in the corporation. Working very hard and creatively only to earn respect from colleagues discourages her. From history one would tend to argue that her work was really rewarded that why she remained interested. However, at the moment due to lack of such rewards or reinforces she develops a change by Carver& Scheier