Social Cognitive Theories

Question 1

Social Cognitive Theory

Answer 1

a cognitive-behavioural approach to personality, developed by Albert Bandura and Walter Mischel, that emphasizes the role of social learning, cognitive processes, and self-regulation

Question 2

Who emphasizes internal personal causes of behaviour?

Answer 2

Psychodyamic, humanistic and trait theorists

Question 3

Who emphasizes external, environmental causes of behaviour?

Answer 3

Radical behaviourists

Question 4

Reciprocal Determinism

Answer 4

Bandura’s model of two-way causal relations between people, behaviour, and the environment
•The person, the person’s behaviours and the environment all influence one another in a pattern of two- way causal links

Question 5

What does Julian Rotter believe influences our behaviours in a given situation?

Answer 5

1. Expectancy

2. Reinforcement Value

Question 6

Expectancy

Answer 6

Our perception of how likely it is that certain consequences will occur if we engage in a particular behaviour within a specific situation

Question 7

Reinforcement Vale

Answer 7

How much we desire or dread the outcome that we expect the behaviour to produce

Question 8

Internal-external locus of control

Answer 8

Rotter’s generalized expectancy that one’s outcomes are under personal versus external control

Question 9

Due to the fact that locus of control applies across many life domains it is called what?

Answer 9

Generalized Expectancy

Question 10

The process of human agency contains what four aspects ?

Answer 10

Intentionality 
Forethought 
Self reactiveness 
Self reflectiveness 
•Proposed by Bandura

Question 11

Self Efficacy

Answer 11

the conviction that we can perform the behaviours necessary to produce a desired outcome

Question 12

What four classes of information affect self efficacy beliefs?

Answer 12

1. Performance Experiences
2. Observational Learning “if she can do it so can I”
3. Verbal Persuasion: “you can do it”
4. Emotional arousal : high arousal such as anxiety decreases self efficacy

Question 13

What is the consistency paradox?

Answer 13

Although we expect and perceive a high level of consistency in people’s behaviours, the actual level of consistency is surprisingly low

Question 14

Cognitive affective personality system (CAPS)

Answer 14

A personality theory proposed by Mischel in which there is a dynamic interplay between the characteristics that a person brings to the situation and the characteristics of the situation.

Question 15

If… then… behaviour consistency

Answer 15

consistency in behaviour, but only within similar situations