Chapter 17- Bandura: Social Cognitive Theory

Question 1

Bandura takes a broad view of learning, believing that people learn through __________ others and by attending to the consequences of their own actions. Although he believes that ___________ aids learning, he contends that people can learn in the absence of __________ and even of a response

Answer 1

Observing, reinforcement, reinforcement

Question 2

According to Bandura, the core of observational learning is this which involves adding and subtracting from the observed behavior and generalizing from one observation to another. It involves cognitive processes and is not simply mimicry or imitation

Answer 2

Modeling

Question 3

What are the three principles that influence modeling according to Bandura?

Answer 3

1) people are most likely to model high-status people
2) people who lack skill or status are most likely to model
3) people tend to model behavior that they see as being rewarding to the model

Question 4

Bandura recognized four processes that govern observational learning:

1) ________, or noticing what a model does. People are more likely to attend to people they frequently associate with, attractive models, popular figures, and behavior that is important to us
2) __________, or symbolically representing new response pattern in memory. Verbal coding greatly speeds the process of observational learning
3) ________ ________, or producing the behavior that one observes
4) _________, the observer must be motivated to perform the observed behavior

Answer 4

Attention, representation, behavior production, motivation

Question 5

According to Bandura, with this type of learning all behavior is followed by some consequence, but whether that consequence reinforces the behavior depends on the person’s cognitive evaluation of the situation. The consequences of a response serve at least three functions: informs us of the effects of our actions, motivates our anticipatory behavior, reinforces behavior

Answer 5

Enactive learning

Question 6

According to Bandura, this system assumes that human action is a result of an interaction among three variables: environment, behavior, and person

Answer 6

Triadic reciprocal causation. Bandura does not suggest that the three factors make equal contributions to behavior, but the relative influence of behavior, environment, and person depends on which factor is strongest at any particular moment

Question 7

People cannot predict or anticipate all possible environmental changes, Bandura is the only personality theorist to seriously consider the possible importance of: (2)

Answer 7

Chance encounters and fortuitous events

Question 8

According to Bandura, this is an unintended meeting of persons unfamiliar to each other

Answer 8

A chance encounter

Question 9

According to Bandura, this is an environmental experience that is unexpected and unintended

Answer 9

A fortuitous event

Question 10

According to Bandura, chance encounters and fortuitous events enter the triadic reciprocal causation paradigm at the ________ point, after which they influence behavior in much the same way as do planned events

Answer 10

Environment

Question 11

Bandura believes that this is the essence of humanness, that is, humans are defined by their ability to organize, regulate, and enact behaviors that they believe will produce desirable consequences

Answer 11

Human agency

Question 12

According to Bandura, human agency has four core features:

1) _________, A proactive commitment to actions that may bring about desired outcomes
2) _______, The ability to set goals, anticipate likely outcomes of actions, select behaviors that will produce desired outcomes and avoid undesirable ones
3) ____-________, includes monitoring their progress towards fulfilling their choices
4) ____-_________, allows people to think about and evaluate their motives, values, and life goals. People are examiners of their own functioning

Answer 12

Intentionality, forethought, self-reactiveness, self-reflectiveness

Question 13

According to Bandura, this is a person’s beliefs that they can or cannot exercise those behaviors necessary to bring about a desired outcome

Answer 13

Self-efficacy

Question 14

According to Bandura, efficacy expectations differ from ______ expectations, which refer to people’s prediction of the likely consequences of their behavior

Answer 14

Outcome expectations

Question 15

According to Bandura, self-efficacy is acquired, enhanced, or decreased by any one or combination of four sources:

1) _______ ________, or past experiences. Successful performance raises efficacy expectancies, failure tends to lower them
2) ______ _______, vicarious experiences provided by other people-observing someone of equal ability succeed or fail at a task
3) ______ _______, listening to a trusted person’s encouraging words
4) ______ and _______ states, such as anxiety or fear which usually lowers self-efficacy

Answer 15

Mastery experiences, social modeling, social persuasion, physical and emotional states

High self-efficacy and a responsive environment are the best predictors of successful outcomes

Question 16

According to Bandura, this involves indirect control over those social conditions that affect every day living

Answer 16

Proxy agency. People seek proxies to supply their food, deliver information, provide transportation, etc. Without the use of proxies, modern people would be forced to spend most of their time securing the necessities of survival

Question 17

According to Bandura, this is peoples shared beliefs in their collective power to produce desired results. The confidence people have that their combined efforts will bring about group accomplishments

Answer 17

Collective efficacy.
Four factors can lower collective efficacy: events in other parts of the world can leave people with a sense of helplessness, complex technology can decrease people’s perceptions of control over their environment, entrenched bureaucracies discourage people from attempting to bring about social change, the size and scope of worldwide problems contribute to people’s sense of powerlessness

Question 18

By using reflective thought, humans can manipulate their environments and produce consequences of their actions, giving them some ability to regulate their own behavior. Bandura believes that self-regulating behavior stems from a reciprocal influence of ________ and _______ factors

Answer 18

External and internal

Question 19

Two external factors contribute to self-regulation:

Answer 19

Standards of evaluation
External reinforcement-for example, money or praise and encouragement from others

External factors affect self-regulation by providing people with standards for evaluating their own behavior

Question 20

Bandura recognizes three internal requirements of self-regulation:

1) ____-_______ of performance, we must be able to monitor our own performance
2) _______ _____, we must evaluate our performance
3) ____-______, people respond positively or negatively to their behaviors depending on how these behaviors measure up to their personal standards

Answer 20

Self-observation, judgemental processes, and self-reaction

Question 21

People regulate their actions through moral standards of conduct. Bandura sees ______ ______as having two aspects: doing no harm to people, and proactively helping people

Answer 21

Moral agency

Question 22

According to Bandura, this refers to the notion that self-regulatory influences are not automatic but operate only if activated. It also means that people react differently in different situations, depending on their evaluation of the situation

Answer 22

Selective activation

Question 23

According to Bandura, this means that people are capable of separating themselves from the negative consequences of their behavior

Answer 23

Disengagement of internal control

Question 24

According to Bandura, people in ambiguous moral situations who are uncertain that their behavior is consistent with their own social and moral standards of conduct may separate their conduct from its injurious consequences through four general techniques of disengagement:

Answer 24

Redefining the behavior, disregarding or distorting the consequences of behavior, dehumanizing are blaming the victims, displacing or diffusing responsibility

Question 25

According to Bandura, this technique of disengagement of internal standards is when people justify otherwise reprehensible actions by a cognitive restructuring that allows them to minimize or escape responsibility

Answer 25

Redefinition of behavior.
Can be done through moral justification, in which otherwise comparable behavior is made to seem defensible or even Noble, through pallets of comparisons which are advantageous comparisons between that behavior and the even greater atrocities committed by others, and through the use of euphemistic labels to change the moral tone of their behavior

Question 26

According to Bandura, in this technique of disengagement of internal standards, people minimize the consequences of their behavior, disregard or ignore the consequences of their actions, and distort or misconstrue the consequences of their actions

Answer 26

Disregard or distort the consequences of behavior

Question 27

According to Bandura, with this technique of disengagement of internal standards, victims may be seen as subhuman, or a rape victim may be blamed for the perpetrators conduct

Answer 27

Dehumanizing or blaming the victims

Question 28

With this technique of disengagement of internal control according to Bandura, people minimize the consequences of their actions by placing responsibility on an outside source, or spread the responsibility so thin that no one person is responsible

Answer 28

Displace or diffuse responsibility

Question 29

According to bandura, dysfunctional behavior is learned through the mutual interaction of the ______, including cognition and neurophysiological processes, the _______, including interpersonal relations and socioeconomic conditions, and ________ factors, including previous experiences with reinforcement

Answer 29

Person, environment, behavioral factors

Question 30

According to Bandura, people who develop depressive reactions often:

1) ________ their successes and overestimate their failures
2) set personal standards too ____
3) treat themselves badly for their _____

Answer 30

Underestimate, high, faults

Question 31

According to Bandura, these are fears that are strong enough and pervasive enough to have severe debilitating effects on one’s daily life

Answer 31

Phobias. Phobias and fears are learned by direct contact, inappropriate generalization, and by observational experiences

Question 32

According to band era, aggressive behaviors when Carrie to extremes can also be dysfunctional. Aggressive behavior is acquired through observation of others, direct experiences with positive and negative reinforcements, training, or instruction, and bizarre beliefs. Once established, people continue to agress for at least five reasons:

Answer 32

1) They enjoy inflicting injury on the victim- positive reinforcement
2) they avoid or counter the aversive consequences of aggression by others-negative reinforcement,
3) they receive injury or harm for not behaving aggressively-punishment,
4) they live up to their personal standards of conduct by their aggressive behavior-self reinforcement,
5) and they observe others receiving rewards for the aggressive acts or punishment for non-aggressive behavior

Question 33

This person’s theory takes an agentic perspective, meaning that humans have some limited ability to control their lives. This theory recognizes that chance encounters and fortuitous events often shape one’s behavior, it places more emphasis on observational learning, stresses the importance of cognitive factors in learning, suggests that human activities is a function of behavior and person variables as well as the environment, and believes that reinforcement is mediated by cognition

Answer 33

Albert Bandura’s social cognitive theory

Question 34

In Bandura’s social cognitive therapy, the goal is ___-______

Answer 34

Self-regulation.
Bandura noted three levels of treatment, induction of change, generalization of change to other appropriate situations, and maintenance of newly acquired functional behaviors

Question 35

What are some of Bandura’s basic treatment approaches?

Answer 35

Overt or vicarious modeling-people who observe live or filmed models performing threatening activities often feel less fear and anxiety and are then able to perform those same activities

Covert or cognitive modeling-the therapist trains patients to visualize models performing fearsome behaviors

Enactive mastery-requires patients to perform those behaviors that previously produced incapacitating fears

Systematic desensitization-a technique and get diminishing phobias through relaxation

Question 36

Research on self-efficacy, religion, and terrorism sparked by Bandura’s theory found that:

Answer 36

Intrinsically religious people did report greater feelings of self-efficacy, and better moods due to the increased sense of self-efficacy, but only when the salience of terrorism was high. When salience of terrorism was low, religiosity caused no difference among test subjects. The conclusion is that in the face of a threat, self-efficacy is crucial to decreasing the threats harmful effects

Question 37

Research sparked by Bandura’s theory on self-efficacy and diabetes and more specifically the role of self efficacy in raising adherence to disease management plans, and lowering negative physical and mental health symptoms has found that:

Answer 37

Self-efficacy was directly responsible for both the relationship between BMI and depression and the relationship between adherence and depression. Specifically, having a high BMI lead people to feel less self-efficacy, which in turn led to increased depression. Conversely, being able to adhere to the disease management plan served to increase self-efficacy, and it was this increase in a sense of control over the disease that was responsible for decreased depression

Question 38

How does Bandura’s theory rate on the six criteria of a useful theory?

Answer 38

It receives the highest marks of any in the text largely because it was constructed through a careful balance of innovative speculation and data from rigorous research. It rates high on its ability to generate research, it’s internal consistency, on parsimony, on its ability to be falsified, organize knowledge, and guide the practitioner

Question 39

Bandura’s theory rates high in five areas and near the middle in one area in the concept of humanity:

Answer 39

It rates near the middle on teleology versus causality and high on free choice, optimism, conscious influences, uniqueness, and social determinants