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| What is the Social (observational) Learning Theory? |
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| Learning a new behavior involves observing and imitating that behavior being performed by another person. |
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| Individuals are more likely to adopt a modeled behavior if: |
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| The model is similar to the observer. The model has admired status. The model is rewarded. The behavior has functional value. |
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| What was Bandura's book Self-efficacy missing? |
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| According to Social Cognitive Theory, people are: |
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| not just reactive organisms shaped and shepherded by environmental events or inner forces. But, self-organizing, proactive, self reflecting, and self-regulating. |
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| Distinct Cognitive Traits |
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| Symbolizing capacity, self-reflective capacity, self-regulatory capacity, vicarious capacity. |
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| Symbols, such as words and letter are utilized to represent? |
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| Specific objects, thought, or ideas. |
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| Symbols are the vehicle of ______ ? |
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| The process of thought verification. People perform a self check to make sure his or her thinking is correct. |
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| What is the adopted standard and perceived performance? |
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| People evaluate their own behavior and respond accordingly. The capacity provides the potential to (self-directed) changes in behavior. |
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| Discrepancy reduction. Discrepancy production. |
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| People learn by observing the behavior of others without directly experiencing it. |
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| What does vicarious learning explain? |
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| How people learn a novel behavior without undergoing the trail and error process of performing it. |
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| Observational learning refers to what? |
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| Not only a short term process based on simple observation and imitation, but it concerns long term effects too. Most commonly invoked theory to explain television's effects on learning behaviors. |
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| Four component processes of Observation learning? |
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| Attention, retention, motor reproduction, and motivation. |
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| Attention depends on what? |
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| Message characterstics, salience and attractiveness. Perceived functional value of the action, one's goal and interests, and one's cognitive skills. |
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| Individuals cannot learn much by the observation unless they perceive and attend to the significant features of the modeled behavior. |
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| Modeled behavior must be remembered or retained in order to be used again. |
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| Cognitive Rehearsal, elaboration, and filling the behavioral into long-term. |
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| Learning a behavior does not lead automatically to replicating it. Individuals must have individuals must have physical abilities and skills to replica the action. |
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| Belief that one can enact the behavior before the attempt. |
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| Socially learned behaviors may not be enacted unless one is motivation. Acquisition vs. Performance. |
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| Motivational rewards or punishments? |
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Direct - direct results of own action
Self Produced - self satisfaction and self-worth
Vicarious - observation of other's behavior and subsequent outcomes. |
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| It may inhibit or restrain a person from acting in previously learned reprehensive, anti-social behavior. |
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| It may lift previously learned internal restraints on certain behaviors. |
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