ALBERT BANDURA

ALBERT BANDURA

1. INFLUENCED BY: APPLICATION OF BEHAVIOURAL PRINCIPLES TO STUDY OF PERSONALITY & BEHAVIOUR

   • SHIFTED IDEAS on personality to more COGNITIVE processes
     • COGNITIVE REVOLUTION
       • BEFORE: PEOPLES MINDS "BLACK BOXES"
       • AFTER: HOW PEOPLE PROCESS EMOTION, GUIDED BY COGNITIONS, HOW WE INTERPRET WORLD & SELF

2. 1986 RECIPROCAL DETERMINISM

   • PERSONALITY, BEHAVIOUR & ENVIRONMENT: SYSTEM of FORCES that MUTUALLY INFLUENCE ONE ANOTHER

3. SOCIAL LEARNING THEORY

   • acquiring NEW SKILLS & KNOWLEDGE through OBSERVATIONAL LEARNING
   • BASIC FORMS: SIMPLE IMITATION ADVANCED FORMS: EXERTING CONTROL OVER, SELF REGULATING OWN ACTIONS & EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCES
   • ACQUISITION vs PERFORMANCE
     • NEW, COMPLEX PATTERN ACQUIRED REGARDLESS OF REINFORCERS
     • WHETHER BEHAVIOUR IS PERFORMED DEPENDS ON REWARDS & PUNISHMENTS
   • BOBO DOLL STUDY
     • 3 GROUPS
       • MODEL AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOUR REWARDED
       • MODEL PUNISHED
       • NO CONSEQUECES
       • HALF: UNINSTRUCTED HALF:POSITIVE INSENTIVE

4. MODELLING

   • MODELLING ONLY (OBSERVING)
   • PARTICIPANT MODELLING (MODEL PERFORMS, P REPEATS
   • BANDURA ET AL (1997) MODELLING & THERAPEUTIC CHANGE: P MODELLING WORKS BEST to influence behaviour

5. SELF & SELF-EFFICACY

   • conceptions of WHO YOU ARE
   • perceptions of OWN CAPABILITIES for ACTION in FUTURE SITUATIONS
   • Scales: used cross many different contexts
   • GOAL SELECTION: HIGH SE CHOOSE MORE CHALLENGING GOALS
   • EFFORT, PERSISTENCE & PERFORMANCE: HIGH SE GREATER EFFORT, HIGHER PERFORMANCE
   • EMOTION: HIGH SE approach tasks with BETTER MOOD
   • COPING: HIGH SE COPE BETTER WITH STRESS & DISAPPOINTMENT
   • 4 SOURCES:
     • PERSONAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS
     • VICARIOUS EXPERIENCE
     • VERBAL PERSUASION
     • EMOTIONAL AROUSAL

6. EVALUATIVE STANDARDS

   • JUDGING GOODNESS of PERSON or EVENT
   • CENTRAL to MORALITY
     • MORAL DISENGAGEMENT
       • ACROSS NUMEROUS CONTEXTS
         • ANTISOCIAL ACTS, TERRORISM, SPORTS