Agentic Perspective Flashcards
(28 cards)
Professor in Stanford University, behaviorist and cognitivist
Albert Bandura
Basic Assumptions of Social Cognitive Theory
- Social Cognitive theory takes an agentic view of the human person. People are self-organizing, proactive, self-reflecting, and self-regulating, not just reactive organisms shaped and shephered by external factors.
- Humans have the flexibility to learn behaviors in diverse situations, particularly through observational learning (obl)
- People have the capacity to regulate their lives through the triadic reciprocal causation
-People regulate their conduct through both internal and external factors
-When people find themselves in ambiguous situations, they typically attempt to regulate their behavior through moral agency
(Intentional Doers capable of changing our environments)
Human Agency
people’s beliefs in their own capabilities to exercise some measure of control over their functioning and environmental events
Self-efficacy
a group’s shared belief in its conjoint capability to organize and execute courses of action required to produce given levels of attainment
Collective Efficacy
getting people who have expertise or power to act on their behalf to get the outcomes they desire
Proxy Efficacy
Sources of Efficacy
Mastery experience,
Vicarious experience,
Social Persuasion
achieved by tackling problems in successive attainable steps (boosting self-efficacy)
Mastery Experience
when we see other people like ourselves succeed by sustained effort, we come to believe that we, too, have the capacity to succeed
Vicarious Experiences
if people are persuaded that they have what it takes to succeed, they exert more effort and are more persevering than if they harbor self-doubts and dwell on personal deficiencies when problems arise.
Social Persuasion
relatively permanent change in behavior due to the experience of observing a model
Observational Learning
is anything that conveys information that a learner could follow through observation
Model
Processes in observational learning
Attention
Retention
Behavioral Production
Motivation
the model performing the behavior should be noticed (can catch attention)
Attention
the behavior performed by the model should be remembered
Retention
the learner must be able to convert the retained information into action
Behavioral Production
the learner must have the will power to perform the behavior learned
Motivation
people’s behaviors and thoughts affect and are affected by social context
Reciprocal Determinism
- Feedback from parents
- Reinforcements for good behavior
External Factors
Self-observation, Judgmental process, Self-reaction
Internal Factors
monitoring our own performance or personal standards
Self-observation
comparing our performance to others
Judgmental Process
responding positively or negatively to our behaviors depending on how they measure to our personal standards
Self-reaction
As much as we can exercise some control over our lives, there are still factors in life that we can’t anticipate
Fortuitous events and Chance encounters
