Bandura

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Theory that states that humans have some limited ability to control their lives

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Social cognitive theory

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Humans have the flexibility to learn a variety of behaviors in diverse situations

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Plasticiity

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Holds that human functioning is molded by the reciprocal interaction of behavior, person variables, environmental events

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Reciprocal determinism or triadic reciprocal causation model

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

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Agent perspective

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Redefining behavior, disregard or distort the consequences of their behavior, dehumanize or blame victims of their behavior, displace or diffuse responsibility for their actions

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Moral agency

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Regulate behavior when people find themselves in ambiguous situations

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Moral agency

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Gives some consistency to personality by allowing people to observe and symbolize their own behavior and to evaluate it on the basis of anticipated future consequences

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Self-system

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The core or heart of observational learning

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Modeling

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Adding or subtracting from the observed behavior and generalizing from one observation to another

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Modeling

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4 processes that govern observational learning

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• attention (observe individuals we frequently associate)
• representation (response patterns in memory)
• behavioral production (convert cognitive representations into appropriate actions)
• motivation (must be motivated to perform observed behavior)

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Complex human behavior can be learned when people think about and evaluate the consequences of their behaviors

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enactive learning (direct experience)

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Usually the strongest contributor to performance

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cognition

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Unintended meeting of persons unfamiliar to each other

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chance encounter

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An environmental experience that is unexpected and unintended

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Fortuitous event

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Chance favors only the prepared mind

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to remember

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The essence of humanness

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Human agency

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An active process of exploring, manipulating, infuencing the environment; ability to oganize regulate and enact behaviors that they believe will produce desirable consequences

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Human agency

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4 core features of human agency

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intentionality, foresight, self-reactiveness, self-reflectiveness

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A proactive commitment to actions that may bring about desired outcomes

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Intentionality

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The ability to set goals, anticipate likely outcomes of their actions and to select behaviors that will produce desired outcomes and avoid undesirable

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Forethought

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People monitoring their progress toward fulfilling their choices

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Self-reactiveness

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Allows people to think about and evaluate their motives, values and life goals

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Self-reflectiveness

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The foundation of human agency

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Self-efficacy

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People’s beliefs in their capability to exercise some measure of control over their own functioning and over environmental events

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self-efficacy

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One’s prediction of the likely consequences of behavior

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Outcome expectancy

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Sources of self-efficacy

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mastery experiences
social modeling
social persuasion
physical and emotional states

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The most influential source of self-efficacy

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mastery experiences

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Able to rely on others for goods and services

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proxy agency

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People’s shared beliefs that they can bring about change

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collective agency

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By using reflective thought, humans can manipulate their environments and produce consequences of their actions, giving them some ability to regulate their own behavior

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self-regulation

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2 external factors of self-regulation

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standards of evaluation

external reinforcement

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Refers to the notion that self-regulatory influences are not automatic but operate only if activated. It also means that people react differently in different situations, depending on their evaluation of the situation

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selective activation

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People are capable of separating themselves from the negative consequences of their behavior; allow people to engage in inhumane behavior while retaining moral standards

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Disengagement of internal control

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Techniques of disengagement

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redefine behavior
disregard/distort consequences of behavior
dehumanize or blame victims
displace or diffuse responsibility

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People redefine behavior by

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moral justifications
palliative comparisons (compare behavior sa mga mas grabi pa)
euphemistic labels (change moral tone of behavior, metaphors)

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Is leaned through the mutual interaction of the person, the environment and behavioral factors (bad)

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Dysfunctional behavior

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Depression characteristics

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self-observation (misjudge own performance)
Judgmental processes (set personal standards too high)
self-reaction (treat self badly for their faults)

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Leaned thru direct experience, inappropriate generalization, observational experiences

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Phobias

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Acquired thru observation, direct with positive, negative reinforcements, training, bizarre beliefs (e.g. bobo doll experiment)

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Aggression

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Emphasizes cognitive mediation and self-regulation

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Goal of bandura’s therapy

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Characteristics of social cognitive therapy

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overt or vicarious modeling (live performance of behavior)
covert or cognitive modeling (visualize performing fearsome behaviors)
enactive mastery (systematic desensitization)

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Bandura sees humans as being relatively fluid and flexible. People can store past experiences and then use this information to chart future actions.

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Concept of humanity