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Chapter 9: Social Cognitive Theory
Psychology Applied to Teaching, 13th edition (Snowman/McCown)
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12/07/2011

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Social Cognitive Theory
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An explanation of how people learn to become self-regulated learners through the interactive effects of their personal characteristics, behaviors, and social reinforcement.
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Triadic reciprocal causation (triadic model)
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Behavior is result of interactions among an individual's personal characteristics, behaviors, and social environment.
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Albert Bandura
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Man known as the driving force behind the social cognitive theory.
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Personal agency
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The potential control we have over our own behavior.
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Self-control
Definition
controlling one's behaviors in a particular setting in the absence of reinforcement or punishment
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Self-regulation
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Consistently using self-control skills in new situations.
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Self-efficacy
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How capable one feels to handle particular kinds of tasks
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Forethought phase
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The phase of self-regulatory systems that includes task analysis and self-motivational beliefs.
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Epistemological beliefs
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What we believe about the nature of knowledge and how we come to know things.
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Performance Phase
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The phase of self-regulatory systems that includes self-control and self-observation.
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Self-reflection phase
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The phase of regulatory systems that includes self-judgment and self-reaction
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Self-reinforcement
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A situation inwhich the individual strives to meet personal standards and does not depend on or care about the reactions of others
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Self-regulated learning
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Thoughts, feelings, and actions purposely generated and controlled to maximize a learning outcome
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Learning strategy
Definition
A plan to achieve a long-term goal (getting an A on the next exam)
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Learning tactic
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A technique that helps achieve an immediate objective (memory aid, form of note taking, etc.)
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Mnemonic device
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A memory-directed tactic that helps a learner transform or organize iformation to enhance its retrievability
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Loci method
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Visualize items to be learned stored in specific locations
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Observational Learning
(also, Modeling)
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Observing and imitating the behavior of a skilled model
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Facilitation
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We are prompted to do something that we do not ordinarily do because of insufficient motivation rather than social disapproval
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Disinhibition
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We learn to exhibit a behavior that is usually disapproved of by most people because a model does the same without being punished
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Inhibition
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We learn not to do something that we already know how to do because a model refrains from behaving that way or is punished for behaving that way
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