Socialization

I.  OVERVIEW

II. SOCIAL LEARNING THEORY

A.  Rotter's Social learning Theory

Basic Assumptions

Process theory

Content theory

Explanation of abnormal behavior

Psychotherapy

B.  Fagan and Rotter

C.  Bandura's Social Learning Theory

1. Basic Assumption: Imitation as the basis of learned social behavior

2. The imitation of aggressive behavior

a. Training children to be aggressive or constructive

b. Catharsis

3. Learning from models to fulfill future needs

4. Fagan and Bandura

a. Motivation

b. Imitation as an act, not a process

III. THE ETHOLOGICAL APPROACH

A. Imprinting

B. Separation

C. Bonding

D. Bowlby's Model of Attachment

E. Current work on attachment

1. Ainsworth's "strange situation

2. Types of attachments and maternal antecedent

3. Adult attachment

4. The continuity of attachment

a. Continuity in attachment over age

b. Continuity of attachment across generations

c. Continuity in attachment as environmental

5. Fagan's Theory

a. Attachment as an act, not a process

b. Attachment, seen as a process, may be a fatal metaphor