Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Dr. Rotter's Psychodynamics Class

I've got notes from a class called Psychodynamics, given by Julian Rotter at UCONN during the spring semester of 1973.  I assume that you weren't in the class, or have misplaced your notes in the last 38 years, so I'll share some of the information.  He talked about field theory ala Kurt Lewin, which he learned directly from the source.    He talked a lot about Alfred Adler's brand of therapy.  He talked a lot less than you would expect about Locus of Control, given how much play it has gotten in the field.  Three problems that he talked about leading to the need for therapy were using generalized expectancies rather than those relevant to the situation, valuing reinforcements that are inappropriate or not available in the situation, and lacking the skills needed to obtain the reinforcements which are available.  Here is a short summary of his Social Learning Theory.

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