The Socio-Cognitive Perspective

Bandura’s Reciprocal Determinism

an individual’s characteristics, behavior, and environment all feed off or influence each other

• a shy person stays home and chills

• staying home further’s shy personality

Bandura’s Self-Efficacy

a person’s belief in their ability to succeed

• if high, appraise as challenge and put yourself in challenging environments

Personal Control

our interactions with the environment depends on our sense of control over it

External locus of control

I don’t control my environment and my performance is up to fate

• the AP curriculum is hard and I can’t change that

Internal locus of control

I have personal control over my environment and my fate

• this AP class is hard but I can take steps to succeed

Spotlight effect

overestimating others’ noticing and evaluating our appearance, performance, and blunder

• thinking everyone notices your teeth

Self-fulfilling prophecy

a prediction that causes itself to become true simply because of belief in the prediction

• you believe you’ll succeed - success!

Self-serving bias

a tendency to perceive oneself favorably

• accepting more responsibility for good deeds rather than bad ones

• overconfidence in your ability