Learning: Observational Social Cognitive View

Question 1

learned helplessness

Answer 1

the tendency to fail to act to escape from a situation because of a history of repeated failures in the past

Question 2

observational learning

Answer 2

learning new behavior by watching a model perform that behavior

Question 3

learning/performance distinction

Answer 3

referring to the observation that learning can take place without actual performance of the learned behavior

Question 4

What are the 4 elements of observational learning?

Answer 4

Attention, memory, imitation, motivation

Question 5

habits

Answer 5

in behaviorism, sets of well-learned responses that have become automatic

Question 6

social congnitive learning theorists

Answer 6

theorists who emphasize the importance of both the influences of other people’s behavior and the influences of a person’s own expectancies of learning

Question 7

social cognitive view

Answer 7

learning theory the includes cognitive processes such as anticipation, judging, memory, and imitation of models

Question 8

reciprocal determinism

Answer 8

Bandura’s explanation of how the factors of environment, personal characteristics, and behavior can interact to determine future behavior

Question 9

self-efficacy

Answer 9

individual’s expectancy of how effective his or her efforts to accomplish a goal will be in any particular circumstance

Question 10

locus of control

Answer 10

the tendency for people to assume that they either have control or do not have control over events and consequences in their lives

Question 11

expectancy

Answer 11

a person’s subjective feeling that a particular behavior will lead to a reinforcing consequence