Bandura Social Cognitive Theory Assumptions: 1.

Plasticity- flexibility to learn a variety of behaviors in diverse situations *Vicarious learning- observing others 2. Triadic Reciprocal Causation- capacity to regulate their lives > Chance encounters > Fortuitous events 3. Agentic Perspective- capacity to control over the nature and quality of their lives *Self-efficacy- confidence that they can perform such behaviors *Proxy Agency- rely on others *Collecty Efficacy- peoples shared beliefs that they can bring about change 4. External & Internal factors Albert Bandura - December 4, 1925, Mundare Observational Learning - allows people to learn without performing any behavior - reinforcement is not essential to learning - more efficient than direct experience Modeling - core of observational learning characteristics of the model are important characteristics of the observer affect the likelihood of modeling the greater the value on observer places on a behavior, the more likely the observer will acquire that behavior Processes 1. Attention 2. Retention 3. Reproduction 4. Motivation Enactive Learning - complex human behavior (facilitated by cognitive intervention) can be learned when people think about and evaluate the consequences of their behaviors 1. Inform us the effects of our actions 2. Motivate our anticipatory behavior 3. Reinforce behavior Triadic Reciprocal Causation 1. Environment 2. Behavior 3. Person Chance Encounters & Fortuitous Events Chance Encounters: an unintended meeting of persons unfamiliar to each other

Fortuitous event- environmental experience that is

unexpected or unintended; used to predict human behavior

HUMAN AGENCY
- control over their own lives - essence of humanness - power to influence their own actions to produce desired consequences

1. Intentionally- proactive commitment to bring them about 2. Forethought- set goals, anticipate likely outcomes of actions, and break free from constraints of environment 4. Self-reactiveness- motivating and regulating their own actions, monitor their progress toward fulfilling those choices 5. Self-reflectiveness- examiners of their own functioning *Self-reflective mechanism is self-efficacy Self-Efficacy
- cognitive factors that relate to their beliefs that they can/cant execute the behavior necessary to produce desired outcomes in any particular situation - peoples beliefs in their capability to exercise some measure of control over their own functioning and over environmental events - foundation of human agency - alter environmental events

- Outcome expectancy: prediction What contributes? 1. Mastery experiences- past 2. Social modeling- kung kaya niya, kaya ko 3. Social persuasion- believe the persuader 4. Physical & Emotional states- depends on your state PROXY AGENCY
- accomplish goal by relying on other people - acquire mentors to help them learn useful skills - you cant do everything!

Collective Efficacy
- peoples shared beliefs in their collective power to produce desired results - combine individual members evaluations of their personal capabilities to enact behaviors that benefit the group - measure the confidence each person has in the groups ability to bring about a desired outcome

Self-Regulation External Factors - standard for evaluating our own behaviors - incentives that emanate from external factors Internal Factors - Self-Observation - Judgmental Processes - Self-Reaction