Social Cognitive Theory Review

What theory suggests that behavior is modeled by others in a group or family, and acquired by through observation or imitation based on what we think will be the consequences (good or bad) of a behavior?

• Sociocultural Approach

• Social Cognitive Theory

• Social Identity Theory

• Social Behavior Theory

An individual's perception of the possibility of success in a given area based on previous experiences

• Self Efficacy

• Personal Truth

• Reciprocal Determinism

• Modeling

Learning that occurs through watching (and sometimes imitating) the behavior modeled by others

• cognitive learning

• observational learning (modeling)

• experiential learning

• social learning

The incentive(s) or reason(s) a person has for acting or behaving in a particular way

• stimulus

• internalization

• motivation

• drive

Experienced (or realized) in your imagination through observing and interpreting the feelings or actions of another person

• by proxy

• intuited

• inferred

• vicarious

Process where the observer sees the model rewarded, making the observer more likely to imitate the model's behavior

• vicarious learning

• vicarious reinforcement

• stimulus response

• cognitive modeling

Children who observed aggressive models made far more imitative aggressive responses; boys were more likely to imitate same-sex models than girls were; boys imitated more physically aggressive acts than girls, but there was little difference in verbal aggression between boys and girls

• CONCLUSION: Bandura et al (1961)

• FINDINGS: Bandura et al (1961)

• AIM:

  Bandura et al (1961)

• METHOD: Bandura et al (1961)