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Albert Bandura Social-Cognitive Theory

Albert Bandura Social-Cognitive Theory. Psy 435 Theories of Personality. © Victor Savicki. History. Born in 1925 on a farm near a small town in rural Alberta Canada (second generation theorist) Trained as a clinical psychologist scientist-practitioner model

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Albert Bandura Social-Cognitive Theory

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  1. Albert BanduraSocial-Cognitive Theory Psy 435 Theories of Personality © Victor Savicki

  2. History • Born in 1925 on a farm near a small town in rural Alberta Canada (second generation theorist) • Trained as a clinical psychologist • scientist-practitioner model • research base for clinical practice • Went almost immediately to Stanford and launched his research..

  3. Context for Theory Development • Early funding for research on childhood and adolescent aggression • Results of research yielded theory of vicarious learning or modeling which led beyond the traditional limits of operant or respondent conditioning into aspects of cognition..

  4. Reciprocal Determinism • People do not simply react to environmental events, but also actively create their environments and act to change them. • Dramatic departure from Radical Behaviorism • Behavior: overt and covert events • Person: cognitive processes • Environment (stimuli are only reinforcing if we think they are)..

  5. Reciprocal Determinism Scheme Behavior Person Environment

  6. Inclusion of Cognitive-Perceptual Processes • Rigorous research base for cognitive variables (not mentalism) • Processes in modeling (vicarious learning) • Attention • Retention • Behavioral production • Motivation..

  7. Self System • Not an autonomous psychic entity • “refers to cognitive structures that provide reference mechanisms and to a set of subfunctions for the perception, evaluation, and regulation of our behavior”..

  8. Self-Efficacy • Situation oriented belief in the ability to produce desired behavior • Not necessarily generalized to all situations • Influenced by experiences, modeling, persuasion and emotional states • In relation to environmental conditions efficacy may lead to specific outcomes, e.g. depression • Other forms of efficacy: Proxy agency, Collective Efficacy • Strong research support..

  9. Self-regulation • Belief in one’s ability to control one’s own behavior • External self-regulation mechanisms • Sources: parents, teachers, peers • Extrinsic reinforcement • Internal self-regulation mechanisms: • Self-observation • Judgment processes • Standards • Attribution • Self-reaction: self-mediated consequences..

  10. Chance Encounters • Added explanations for the unpredictability of behavior • Woven into the B-P-E reciprocal determinism theory • Chance encounters--persons • Fortuitous events--environmental events

  11. Psychopathology and Psychotherapy • Faulty learning • Vicarious sensitization • Vicarious desensitization • stimulus hierarchy • models • graduated presentation • Assertiveness (social skills) training • model • behavioral rehearsal • feedback..

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