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| What are the distinguishing features of social cognitive theory? |
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| Emphassis on people as active agnetns, soical origins of behavior, cognitive (thought) processes, and on the learning of the complex patterns of behavior or absence of rewards. |
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| What is Bandura's central interest? |
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| It's in the ways in which the "self processes" give people the capacity for personal agency (given them capacity to contribute to their own experiences, actions, and personal development) |
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| About what was Mishcel skeptical? |
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| He was skeptical regarding the Peace Corps assessment (where we found the gloabal trait measures did a poor job predicting perromance), which increased his skepticism concerning the utility of traditional personality theories such as trait and psychoanalytic theory that emphasizes stable and broadly generalizes personality characteristics |
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| What are the 3 psychological qualites that are essential in defining features of persons? |
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1) Persons who are beings who can reason about the world usingn language.
2). Persons can reasons not only present circumstances but also events in their past and hypothetical future
3) This reasoning commonly reflection on the self |
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| According to soical cognitve theorists, even if we experience unconscious emotional or environmental factors, what do humans have the ability to do? |
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| The capacity to overcome and gain control over the course of their lives |
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| What are three features of the soical-cognitive view of personality science? |
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-Try to capitalize or scientific adances throughout psychology as well as advances in other sciences that study human nature and behavior.
-Belief that person can intergrate knowldege from diverse branches of psychology (developmental, social, cognitive, and neurosciences) into coherenet portrait of human nature and the differences among pesons. It emphasizes the study of individual persons |
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