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What is self-efficacy based on?
What is self-efficacy based on?
What is the perception that you control your own fate?
What is the perception that you control your own fate?
What happens to people when they are repeatedly faced with traumatic events over which they have no control?
What happens to people when they are repeatedly faced with traumatic events over which they have no control?
What is the term for the hopelessness and passive resignation an animal or human learns when unable to avoid repeated aversive events?
What is the term for the hopelessness and passive resignation an animal or human learns when unable to avoid repeated aversive events?
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What is the opposite of feeling helpless?
What is the opposite of feeling helpless?
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What is the term for the extent to which people perceive control over their environment?
What is the term for the extent to which people perceive control over their environment?
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Which perspective views individual as a biopsychosocial organism?
Which perspective views individual as a biopsychosocial organism?
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What is the primary focus of the Social-Cognitive Perspective?
What is the primary focus of the Social-Cognitive Perspective?
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According to Albert Bandura, how do we learn many of our behaviors?
According to Albert Bandura, how do we learn many of our behaviors?
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What is the term for the level of a person's confidence in their ability to successfully perform a behavior?
What is the term for the level of a person's confidence in their ability to successfully perform a behavior?
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What is reciprocal determinism, according to Bandura?
What is reciprocal determinism, according to Bandura?
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What is the cognitive part of the Social-Cognitive Perspective?
What is the cognitive part of the Social-Cognitive Perspective?
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What shapes our personalities, according to the Social-Cognitive Perspective?
What shapes our personalities, according to the Social-Cognitive Perspective?
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What is the term for the process of learning through observing and modeling others' behaviors?
What is the term for the process of learning through observing and modeling others' behaviors?
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Study Notes
Social Cognitive Theory
- Social-Cognitive Perspective is a branch of psychology that focuses on intelligence and thought processes, emphasizing the dynamic interaction between people, their behavior, and their environment.
- It explores the internal mental processes underlying human learning and behavior.
Social-Cognitive Perspective on Personality
- Proposed by Albert Bandura, this perspective views behavior as influenced by the interaction between people's traits (including their thinking) and their social context.
- We learn many of our behaviors through social and cognitive parts:
- Social part: through conditioning, observing others, and modeling behaviors after theirs.
- Cognitive part: mental processes affect our behaviors, and what we think about our situations affects our behaviors.
Reciprocal Determinism
- Each person has a unique personality due to their personal histories and interpretation of the world around them, which shapes their personalities.
- Reciprocal determinism, as proposed by Bandura, views the person-environment interaction as interlocking determinants of each other, where behavior, internal personal factors, and environmental influences all operate together.
Self-Efficacy
- Self-efficacy is the level of a person's confidence in their ability to successfully perform a behavior.
- It is based on past experiences and beliefs, and affects personal capability assessment.
Personal Control
- Social cognitive psychologists emphasize the importance of our sense of personal control, whether we learn to see ourselves controlling or being controlled by our environment.
- Personal control is the extent to which people perceive control over their environment, rather than feeling helpless.
- Internal locus of control: the perception that you control your own fate, positively correlated with self-esteem.
- External locus of control: the perception that chance or outside forces beyond your personal control determine your fate.
Learned Helplessness
- People who repeatedly face traumatic events over which they have no control come to feel helpless, hopeless, and depressed.
- Learned helplessness is the hopelessness and passive resignation an animal or human learns when unable to avoid repeated aversive events.
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Explore the Social-Cognitive Perspective, a branch of psychology that explores the dynamic interaction between personal factors, behavior, and environment, and its role in human learning and behavior.
