Chapter 9 Social Cogntiive Theory Flashcards
Acqusition
The learning of new behaviours, viewed by Bandura as independent of reward and contrasted with performance - which is seen as dependent on reward
Behavioural signatures
Individual distinctive profiles of situation-behaviour relationships
Cognitive-affective processing system (CAPS)
A theoretical framework developed by Mischel and colleagues in which personality is understood as containing a large set of highly interconnected cognitive and emotional processes; the interconnections cause personality to function in an integrative, coherent way, or as a system
Competencies
A structural unit in social-cognitive theory reflecting the individuals ability to solve problems or perform tasks necessary to achieve goals
Context specificity
The idea that a given personality variable may come into play in some life settings, or context, but not in others, with the result that a person behaviour may vary systematically across contexts
Delay of gratification
The postponement of pleasure until the optimum or proper time, a concept particularly emphasized in social-cognitive theory in relation to self-regulation
Evaluative standards
Criteria for evaluating the goodness or worth of a person or thing. In social-cognitive theory, peoples standards for evaluating their own actions are seen as being involved in the regulation of behaviour and the experience of emotions such a pride, shame, and feelings of satisfaction or dissatisfaction with oneself
Expectancies
In social-cognitive theory, what the individual anticipates or predicts will occur as the result of specific behaviours in specific situations (anticipated consequences)
Goals
In social-cognitive theory, desired future events that motivate the person over extended periods of time and enable the person to go beyond momentary influences
Microanalytic research
Banduras suggested research strategy concerning the concept of self-efficacy in which specific rather than global self-efficacy judgments are recorded
Observational learning (modeling)
Banduras concept for the process through which people lean merely by observing the behaviour of others, called models
Perceived self-efficacy
In social-cognitive theory, the perceived ability to cope with specific situations
Performance
The production of learned behaviours, viewed by Bandura as dependent on rewards, in contrast with the acquisition of new behaviours, which is seen as independent of reward
Reciprocal determinism
The mutual, back-and-forth effects of variables on one another; in social-cognitive theory, a fundamental causal principle in which personal, environmental, and behavioural factors are viewed as causally influencing one another
Self-evaluative reactions
Feelings of dissatisfaction versus satisfaction (pride) in oneself that occur as people reflect on their actions
