ALBERT BANDURA: SOCIAL COGNITIVE THEORY

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the outstanding characteristic of humans is

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Plasticity

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humans have flexibility to learn a variety of behaviors in diverse situations.

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Plasticity

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learning by observing others

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Vicarious Learning

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includes behavioral, environment, and personal factors

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Triadic Reciprocal Causation Model

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two important environmental forces in the triadic model

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Chance Encounters

Fortuitous Events

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humans have the capacity to exercise control over the nature and quality of their lives

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Agentic Perspective

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people are able to rely on others for goods and services

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Proxy Agency

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an important component of the triadic reciprocal causation model is

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Self-Efficacy

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the people’s shared beliefs that they can bring about change.

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Collective Efficacy

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includes redefining the behavior, disregarding or distorting the consequences of their behavior, dehumanizing or blaming the victims of their behavior, and displacing or diffusing responsibility for their actions

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Moral Agency

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2 kinds of learning

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Observational

Enactive

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the core of observational learning

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Modeling

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involves adding and subtracting from the observed behavior and generalizing from one observation to another

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Modeling

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four processes that govern observational learning

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Attention
Representation
Behavioral Production
Motivation

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attend to the model, paying attention to his/her actions

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Attention

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memorizing the details about the action

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Representation

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producing the action

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Behavioral Production

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motivating yourself

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Motivation

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direct experience by thinking about and evaluating the consequences of their behaviors.

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Enactive Learning

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human action is a result of an interaction among three variables - environment, behavior, and person (memory, anticipation, planning, and judging)

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Triadic Reciprocal Causation

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is usually the strongest contributor to performance

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Cognition

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an unintended meeting of persons unfamiliar to each other

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Chance Encounters

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an environmental experience that is unexpected and unintended.

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Fortuitous Events

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humans have the capacity to exercise control over their own lives

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Agentic Perspective

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the essence of humanness

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Human Agency

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Bandura believes that people are self-regulating, proactive, self-reflective, and self-organizing, and that they have the power to influence their own actions to produce desired consequences.

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Human Agency

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an autonomous agent - making decisions that are consistent with their view of self.

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Human Agency

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high confidence in one’s own actions

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Self-Efficacy

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people’s belief in their capability to exercise some measure of control over their own functions and over environmental events.

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Self-Efficacy

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What Contributes to Self-Efficacy?

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Mastery Experiences
Social Modeling
Social Persuasion
Physical and Emotional States

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internal factor that increases self-efficacy. priori achievements demonstrate our capabilities and strengthen our feelings of self-efficacy.

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Mastery Experiences

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seeing other people perform successfully - strengthen self-efficacy particularly if the people we observe are similar to us in their abilities.

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Social Modeling

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“if they can do it, so can I”

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Social Modeling

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involves simply reminding people that they have the ability to achieve whatever they want to achieve, can enhance self-efficacy

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Social Persuasion

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the more fear, anxiety, or tension we experience in a given situation, the less we feel able to cope.

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Physical and Emotional States

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they reactively attempt to reduce the discrepancies between their accomplishments and their goal; but after they close those discrepancies, they proactively set newer and higher goals for themselves.

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Self-Regulation

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internal factors in self-regulation

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Self-Observation
Judgmental Processes
Self-Reaction

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judging the worth of our actions on the basis of goals we have set for ourselves; cognitive mediation; the process depends on personal standards, referential performances, valuation of activity, and performance attribution.

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Judgmental Processes

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depends on our personal standards; either we reward or punish ourselves.

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Self-Reaction

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self-regulatory influences are not automatic but operate only if they are activated

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Selective Activation

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by justifying the morality of their actions, they can separate or disengage themselves from the consequences of their behavior.

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Disengagement of Internal Control

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overt

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Vicarious Modeling

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covert

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Cognitive Modeling

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the ultimate goal of social cognitive therapy is

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Self-Regulation