Rotter’s ideas about the significance of people’s expectations in determining their behavior have influenced the thinking of Walter Mischel, whose work also reflects psychology’s renewed interest in cognition. Mischel initially emphasized behavioral specificity in his discussion of human behavior. Behavioral specificity (Mischel, 1968) means that an individual’s behavior is influenced by the specific situation. Mischel proposed that we behave consistently in the same manner in different situations only to the extent that these situations lead to similar consequences and have similar meaning for the person.
When the consequences are different, we learn to discriminate among different situations and behave accordingly. Which reaction we show
When the consequences are different, we learn to discriminate among different situations and behave accordingly. Which reaction we show