What factors does social cognitive theory add to social learning theory?
Cognitive factors such as beliefs, self-perceptions, and expectations.
Which models are observers more likely to attend to?
Competent, prestigious, enthusiastic, high-status, or self-similar models.
What does social learning theory emphasize?
Learning through observation of others.
What change in behavior, thinking, or emotion defines modeling?
A change resulting from observing another person.
How can classroom observational learning affect students?
It can direct attention, refine learned behaviors, alter inhibitions, teach new behaviors and attitudes, and evoke emotions.
How does self-efficacy differ from self-concept?
Self-efficacy concerns capability to perform a specific task; self-concept is a more global self-perception.
What behaviors are associated with higher self-efficacy?
Greater effort, persistence, higher goals, less fear of failure, and trying new strategies.
What three practices improve students’ performance and self-efficacy?
Using short-term goals, learning specific strategies, and recognizing achievements as evidence of competence.
What defines the ripple effect in classroom modeling?
It is the contagious spread of behaviors through imitation.
What does human agency enable a person to coordinate toward goals?
Learning skills, motivation, and emotions.
Answer 11 questions on Self-Regulation and Learning.
1. A student’s low confidence leads to less effort, which prompts a teacher to change instruction; the new instruction then affects the student’s confidence. Which framework best describes this cycle?
2. What does social cognitive theory add to social learning theory?
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