CHAPTER 10: SOCIAL COGNITIVE THEORY

Social Cognitive Theory

this theory examines the process involved as people learn from observing others and gradually acquire control over their own behavior.

Plasticity

it states that human have the flexibility to learn variety of behavior in diverse situations

Agentic Perspective

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

Moral Agency

this a way of regulating a behavior when a people find themselves in morally ambiguous situations.

Enactive Learning

this allow people to acquire new patterns of behavior through direct experience by thinking and evaluating the consequence of their behavior.

Vicarious Learning

learning through observation rather than experiencing.

Observational Learning

it was said to be more efficient than learning through direct experience.

Attention

a process of governing observational learning wherein a person has to stay attentive to the model

Representation

a process of governing observational learning wherein a symbolical representation of the things you have observed is made in your mind in order to lead to new response pattern.

Reproduction

a process of governing observational learning wherein you do what the model did

Motivation

a process of governing observational learning that make observational learning more effective.

Modeling

a core of observational learning; symbolically representing information and sorting it for future use.

Disengagement of Internal Control

this is justifying the morality of one’s action in order to engage in inhumane behavior while retaining the moral standard.

Triadic Reciprocal Causation

this system assumes that human action is a result of an interaction among, environment, behavior, and person

Person

in triadic reciprocal causation this refers to the cognitive capacities that allows a person to select or restructure the environment.

Chance Encounter

an unintended meeting of persons that are unfamiliar with each other.

Fortuitous Event

an environmental experience that is unexpected and unintended.

Human Agency

an active process of exploring, manipulating, and influencing the environment in order to attain desired outcomes.

intentionality

refers to acts a person performs intentionally

forethought

people posses this to set goals and to anticipate outcomes of actions.

self-reflectiveness

refers to examining person’s own functioning

self-reactiveness

refers to monitoring the progress towards fulfilling those choices.

self-efficacy

refers to people’s confidence that they have the ability to perform certain behavior.

Proxy Agency

this is an act of relying on others for good and services

Collective Efficacy

refers to people’s shared belief that they can bring about change.

Outcome Expectancy

refers to one’s prediction of the likely consequence of that behavior.

Self-regulation

attempt to reduce the discrepancies and setting newer and higher goals for themselves.

Judgmental Process

an act of comparing our behavior to a standard reference.

value

the judgmental process depend on how much we put on to this.

Performance Attribution

this refers to how we judge the cause of our behavior.

Selective Activation

states the self-regulatory influences are not automatic but operate only if activated.