MODULE 11: BANDURA

Representation

For observation to lead to new response patterns, those patterns must be symbolically represented in memory

Attention

Before we can model another person, we must attend to that person. We have more opportunities to observe individuals with whom we frequently associate, and attractive models are more likely to be observed than unattractive ones.

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Behavioral Production

After attending to a model and retaining what we have observed, we then produce the behavior

Motivation

Observational learning is most effective when learners are motivated to perform the modeled behavior.

Enactive Learning Theory

allows people to acquire new patterns of complex behavior through direct experience by thinking about and evaluating the consequences of their behaviors.

Triardic Reciprocal Causation / Reciprocal Determinism

Assumes that human action is a result of an interaction among three variables—environment, behavior, and person

chance encounter

an unintended meeting of persons unfamiliar to each other

Fortuitous Event

is an environmental experience that is unexpected and unintended

Human Agency

Social cognitive theory takes an agentic view of personality, meaning that humans have the capacity to exercise control over their own lives

Human Agency

Bandura (2001) believes that people are self-regulating, proactive, self-reflective, and self-organizing and that they have the power to influence their own actions to produce desired consequences.

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Intentionality

refers to the acts a person performs

intentionally. An intention includes planning, but it also involves actions.

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Forethought

refers to the capacity to set goals, to anticipate likely outcomes of their actions, and to select behaviors that will produce desired outcomes and avoid undesirable ones.

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Self-reactiveness

the process of motivating and regulating their actions. People not only make choices, but they monitor their progress toward fulfilling those choices.

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Self-reflectiveness

humans are examiners of their own functioning; they can think about and evaluate their motivations, values, and the meanings of their life goals, and they can think about the adequacy of their own thinking.

self-efficacy

Bandura (2001) defined ____________ as "people's beliefs in their capability to exercise some measure of control over their own functioning and over environmental events"

Proxy Agency

involves indirect control over those social conditions that affect everyday living

Proxy Agency

people are able to rely on others for goods and services

collective efficacy

people's shared beliefs in their collective power to produce desired results"

collective efficacy

the confidence people have that their combined efforts will bring about group accomplishments.

Mastery experiences

our own direct experiences- the most powerful source of efficacy information

mastery experiences

-direct success increases efficacy; failure lowers it

-strongest source in adults

social modeling

the tendency of individuals to mimic the behavior of others (Vicarious experiences)

social persuasion

when someone says something positive to you, it helps you overcome self-doubt