Define Me!
Define "agency"
What is an act done with intention - intentionally make things happen with one’s actions
This theory holds that social-structural factors operate through psychological mechanisms of the self system to produce behavioral effects
Social Cognitive Theory
Parents are this to children
Proxy Agents
This therapy has been successful with simple habit problems such as smoking, overeating, and study habits
What is self-control therapy
These are the three different modes of social cognitive theory
Define "intention"
What is the proactive commitment to bringing certain future events to happen
This is a biological determinist
Who is a theorist that favors the rule of nature
This is how efficacy beliefs are shaped by social influences
self reflectiveness
Beck described this type of cognitive distortion occurs when one believes things have to be exactly as one wants them to be
What is all-or-none thinking
When people do not have direct control over their social/institutional conditions that affect their daily lives, they are dependent on this mode of human agency
Define "self-efficacy"
What is the belief that people are capable of controlling their own functioning
These are biological potentialists
who are theorists that believe human nature permits a range of possibilities. Opportunities, privilege, and power affect life
Birth control is used for this purpose, according to the article, as an example
What is so that humans can be agents of their own evolution
Bandura conducted this research, challenging the Freudian view of socially-modeled violent behavior
What is the Bobo doll experiment
These are the three reasons as to why someone may turn to proxy agency
What are not wanting to take on the effort themselves, thinking someone else will do a better job, and not having the means to do so themselves
Define "cognitive processes"
What are emergent brain activities that exert determinative influence
This type of environmental plan rewards clients depending depending on how well they implemented their agenda
What are self-contracts
This is what thinking globally, acting locally do
what is restore one's sense of self efficacy
Characteristics of cognitive therapy include this relationship for explaining symptoms
What is dysfunctional behaviors are cognitively mediated
Shared intentions, knowledge, and skills of many come together to promote this type of agency through interactive, coordinated, and synergistic dynamics of group interactions
Collective
Define "outcomes"
What are consequences of agentive acts
Human evolution provides bodily structures and biological potentialities, but does not provide this
What are behavioral dictates
In relation to brain mapping, Bandura says this about the relationship of physicality and psychology
What is physicality does not determine the impact of stimuli psychologically, eg the I have a dream speech when mapped in the brain does not look as significant/impactful as it actually was
This cognitive model identifies people having negative views of themselves, the world, and their future
What is the cognitive triad model
These modern day conditions undermine Bandura’s take on collective efficacy
What are transnational forces such as technology - including text, internet, basically anything that allows you to communicate with anyone who also has access to that technology