CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Rotter’s social learning theory emphasizes the role of expectancies in determining behavior. According to Rotter (1954), behavior “is determined not only by the nature or importance of goals or reinforcements, but also by the person’s anticipation or expectancy that these goals will occur.

Detailed explanation-2: -Rotter’s social learning theory emphasizes the role of expectancies in determining behavior. According to Rotter (1954), behavior “is determined not only by the nature or importance of goals or reinforcements, but also by the person’s anticipation or expectancy that these goals will occur.

Detailed explanation-3: -Rotter’s approach to cognitive processes is to focus on how an individual’s personality helps to determine their responses to their environment.

Detailed explanation-4: -Given the complexity of each individual, Rotter believed that in order to make reasonable predictions about behavior it was necessary to examine four kinds of variables: behavior potential, expectancy, reinforcement value, and the psychological situation (Rotter, 1954, 1964, 1972; Rotter & Hochreich, 1975).

Detailed explanation-5: -The “locus of control” is a personality construct referring to an individual’s perception of the locus of events as determined internally by his/her belief that an outcome is directly the result of his/her behavior.