Module 8 - Social Cognitive Theory

Reading Guide Module 8

Social Cognitive Theory

To assist you with the assigned readings, I have developed an outline of questions for you to answer. Think about this as a key for what information to pay attention to in the reading. Research shows that students learn and retain information better when they can write it down in their own words.

Try to answer the questions within these guides in your own words rather than copying and pasting the content from readings/lectures. The idea is to see if you can succinctly answer the question in your own words based on the knowledge you gained from your readings/lectures. Try to answer each question within one to three sentences.

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1. What were the Bobo doll experiments?
2. How did Bandura conceptualize the concept of learning from the media? 
3. What is the idea behind reciprocal determinism?
4. Table 8.1 lists many propositions of the social cognitive theory. Describe one of these in your own words.
5. Table 8.1 lists many propositions of the social cognitive theory. Describe another one of these in your own words.
6. Describe one of the criticisms of social cognitive theory?
7. Describe the idea behind self-efficacy.
8. Describe the four processes through which vicarious learning takes place?
9. How do rewards and punishment influence the effects of observational learning on our own behaviors? (asynchronous lecture)
10. How does identification influence the effects of observational learning on our own behaviors? (asynchronous lecture)