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j. Chapter 11 Albert Bandura and Walter Mischel
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Psychology
Graduate
11/18/2013

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social cognitive theory
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the position of Bandura and Mischel is referred to as
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learning
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which paradigm do bandura and Mischel belong to?
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social, cognitive
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the _______ portion of the terminology acknowledges the social origins of much human thought and action; the ______ portion recognizes the influential causal contribution of thought processes to human motivation, affect, and action
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observational learning
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_______________ requires no reinforcement
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perceptual process
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according to Bandura and Mischel, humans learn what they attend to, and therefore, for them, learning is a _________.
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personality coefficient
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Mischel's quantification of the amount of consistency found in human behavior.
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consistent
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human behavior is not very ________
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consistency paradox
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According to Mischel, the persistent belief that human behavior is more consistent than is indicated by experimental evidence.
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person variables
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are those aspects of a person, such as traits habits and repressed experiences, that are assumed to cause the person to act consistently in a variety of similar situations.
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situation variables
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consist of the environmental circumstances in which the person finds him or herself.
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person and situation
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what is needed, says Mischel, is a theory that considers the contributions of both the ______ and the _______
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reciprocal determinism
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which means that person variables, stuation variables, and bheavior continuously interact with one another.
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cognive soial person variables
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those variables thought by Mischel to determine how a person selects, perceives, interprets, and uses the stimuli confronting him or her.
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encoding strategies
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cognitive social person variable that determines which aspects of the environment are selected for attention and how those aspects are interpreted by the individual.
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encoding strategies
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these provide some consistency in behavior, but the fact that those strategies can be changed by the individual at any time at least partially accounts for the fact that cross-situational behavior is not very consistent.
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expectancies
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cognitive social person variable that determines how individuals anticipate events in their lives.
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behavior outcome expectancies
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belief that acting a certain way in a certain situation will have a certain consequence.
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stimulus outcome expectancies
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belief that one environmental event will be followed by another specific event that has been consistently associated with the first event in the past.
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self efficacy expectancy
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expectancy one has concerning one's ability to engage in effective behavior.
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percieved self efficacy
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which is what a person thinks he or she is capable of doing in various situations
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subjective values
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cognitive social person variable that determines under what circumstances a person will translate what has been learned into behavior.
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subjective values
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determines what is worth having or doing
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self regulatory systems and plans
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cognitive social learning person variable that determines the circumstances under which an individual experiences self-reinforcement and self-punishment.
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intrinsic internal reinforcement
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self reinforcement
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extinsic reinforcement
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reinforcements that result from sources outside of the person.
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compentencies
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what we are capable of doing
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compentencies
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active processes that can be used by the person to generate a wde variety of creative constructions or responses to ay given situation.
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model
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anything that conveys informationto the observer
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vicarious reinforcement
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reinforcement that comes from observing the positive consequences of another persons behavior
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vicarious punishment
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punishment that comes from observing the negative consequences of another persons behavior.
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vicariously
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reinforcement is important to learning, but it can be _________ experienced and not be contigent on ones own behavior
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observe
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we learn from what we _________
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Bandura
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supports neither the extensive use of corporal punishment nor unconditional love.
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Attentional Processes
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processes that determine what is is attended to and therefore what is learned through observation
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attentional processes
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these include the complexity, distinctiveness, and prevalence of the stimulation
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retentional processes
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those processes that determine how experiences are encoded into memory for possible future use.
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Imaginally or verbally
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Bandura says that experiences are either stored ________- or ___________.
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delayed modeling
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refers to the fact that there is often a long delay between when something is learned observationally and when that learning is translated into behavior.
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motivational processes
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those processes that determine the circumstances under which learning is translated into behavior. Such translation will not occur unless the person has an adequate incentive
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reinforcement
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direct or vicariously this provides the information necessary for the development of effective behavior-outcome expectancies.
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self regulated behavior
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behavior goverened by the intrinsic reinforcement and punishment. often directed at some major future life goal that is approached through a series of subgoals.
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performance standards
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those standards that must be met or exceeded before one experiences self reinforcement. If a person's performance does not meet or exceed a persons erformance standard, he or she experiences self punishment.
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human agency
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the conscious planning and intentional execution of actions that influence future events.
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self efficacy
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refers to what a person is actually capable of doing.
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percieved efficacy
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that which a person believes he or she is capable of doing
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moral conduct
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behavior that is in accordance with internalized moral principles.
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self exonerating mechanism
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cognitive mechanisms a person can employ to excape the self contempt that ordinarily results when a person acts contrary to an internalized moral principle.
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delay of gratification
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postponement of a small immediate reinforcer in order to obtain a larger, more distant reinforcer
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self control
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ability to tolerate a delay in gratification
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dysfunctional expectancies
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expectancies that do not result in effective interactions wth the environment.
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participant modeling
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type of modeling that requires the observer to participate in the modeling experiences
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psychotherapy
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within social cognitive theory, any procedure that corrects dysfunctional expectancies.
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systematic desensitization
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therapeutic procedure whereby a client is asked to imagine a series of interrelated anxiety-provoking scenes until they no longer cause anxiety.
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symbolic modeling
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modeling involving something other than a live human, for instance, a film, television, instructions, reading material, or a demonstration.
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freedom
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within social cognitive theory, freedom is determined by the number of options to people and their right to excersise them.
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chance encounter
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an unintended, or fortuitous meeting of persons that has the potential to alter significantly the lives of those involved
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interactionist
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any theorist who contends it is the interaction of person variables and situation variables that determines behavior at any given moment.
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observational learning
Definition
learning that results from attending to something.
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