Bandura's Social Learning Theory

What is Reciprocal Determinism?

• Vicarious reinforcements
• The interacting mutual influences of the person, the environment and the behavior.
• Motivational variables

In what way(s) does Bandura and Developmentalists differ?

• Bandura minimizes the importance of developmental growth which emerge from within children
• Bandura says that children learn to obtain reinforcements  such as praise
• Both A & B

What is considered a strength of Bandura's Social Learning Theory?

• contributed greatly to the understanding of how environmental factors shape behavior
• Concerned with important human social behaviors
• An evolving theory that is open to change
• All of the above

What is considered true of Bandura's theory?

• Overlooks the extent to which children learn on their own and the extent to which modeling is influenced by cognitive stages
• Limited attention to human social behaviors
• Children do not learn to seek out reinforcements

True or False: 
Human Agency  - people act with intention, forethought, self-reactiveness, and self-reflectiveness.

• True
• False

The Self-regulation process is made up of

• Self-observation
• Self-response
• Judgmental process
• All of the above

True or False:
When we deem ourselves well in self-efficacy, we are okay when we temporarily fail and we readjust our efforts, and when we succeed, we feel even better.

• True
• False

What is the fourth component of observational learning?
1. Attentional
2. Retention
3. Motor Reproduction
4.__________

• Vicarious reinforcements
• Motivational processes
• Reciprocal determinism
• Adjustment