In the social cognitive theory, Bandura emphasized that people learn through observing others by modeling and imitation, and he supported his claims by conducting the Boba doll experiment. The experiment showcased that children could learn aggressive behaviors by observing adults. The experiment was making children observe an adult hitting the Boba doll, and then the children were put in the same room as the Boba doll and they were observed. The children who saw adults behaving aggressively towards the doll were more likely to imitate the same behavior and aggression. Learning happens through direct reinforcement, but this experiment proved that learning behaviors can also happen through observation. Watching TV cartoons for hours can harm children’s behavioral development. As adults, we must be aware of what our children are observing and of the influence that social media, electronics, and video games have on our children’s behaviors. Some children look up to Spiderman, Dora the Explorer, or other cartoon characters as their role models, and observing those cartoon characters will leave an impact on our children and affect their behavioral development. For example, in the picture that I chose, you can see that the children are watching a car race, which might make them think that it is fun to drive fast in the future and that it is safe, but in reality, it is not safe at all to do so and it is hazardous to learn those behaviors.

• Perceived susceptibility: one believes they are vulerable to a health problem.

• Perceived severity: one believes that being inflicted by a health problem has serious consequences.

I used the image of people wearing masks in my post because I think it is a recent, relevant, and controversial topic that we all witnessed and went through at the beginning of and still with the presence of the COVID-19 pandemic. Here, we can use this example to explain the way that people who believed they were susceptible to COVID wore masks to lessen the likelihood of catching it. People also wore masks because they believe that getting COVID had other, sometimes more severe, health issues that resulted from getting COVID.

Adversely, there were also people who did not believe in COVID or the conditions that could occur after getting it so they chose not to wear masks.

I believe this time was so controversial due to people's conflicting ideas about perceived susceptibility and perceived severity and many people were judging each other based on their perceptions which caused a lot of tension.

The Diffusion of Innovation Theory describes the way in which products spread through different populations at a certain rate. The Diffusion of innovation theory has 5 stages which include the innovators, early adopters, early majority, late majority, and laggards. In today’s society it is easy for ideas and things to spread because of social media. Social media has a big impact on people because there are constantly new products being shared which causes an uproar in purchases to where some things are sold out for a long time. Social media resonates with the late majority stage of the Diffusion of Innovation because this is when people make the decision to buy what they see online because everyone else has tried it and raves about it. One example I chose to talk about for this theory is the Ugg Tasman Slippers. The company Uggs has been around for a long time and has always been popular but with the help of social media it has blown up even more with people constantly sharing different styles. Ugg tasman are extremely popular but also hard to find due to its popularity on Tik Tok which causes it to be sold out. These products would be considered a late majority because although people have always purchased uggs, since seeing it online it has caused more people to purchase it making it hard to get your hands out since it is always sold out. I admit that I have tried buying them because they are all over my Tik Tok. For my pictures I have a attached a screenshot of a Tik Tok of someone saying “POV: you caved and bought the viral mustard seed ugg tasman slippers for fall” and this shows how powerful Tik Tok is when it comes to sharing products and making people buy out this things. This increases rates of sales causing an increase of production from these companies to make enough for everyone to purchase.

I specifically chose stage 6 which is the acting portion. Acting was a big part of the COVID-19 pandemic because it acted as a preventative measure when we didn’t have a vaccine yet and that was by wearing masks. By wearing masks during that time, the reduction of the spread of respiratory illnesses within the community is evident as the number of infectious particles both exhaled and inhaled is also reduced. Wearing a mask not only protects you, but also those around you simultaneously. It is and was a big part of helping stop the spread of COVID-19 especially during a time where uncertainty ran rampant and we weren’t sure when life could go back to normal. 

• STUDENTS WITH LAST NAME A-D are assigned to Precaution Adoption Process Model

• STUDENTS WITH LAST NAME E-I are assigned to Diffusion of Innovation Theory

• STUDENTS WITH LAST NAME J-L are assigned to Social Cognitive Theory

• STUDENTS WITH LAST NAME M-N are assigned to Transtheoretical Model

• STUDENTS WITH LAST NAME O-Q are assigned to Theory of Planned Behavior

• STUDENTS WITH LAST NAME R-S are assigned to the Health Belief Model

• STUDENTS WITH LAST NAME T-Z are assigned to the Social Ecological Model

STEP 2:   Choose one (1) concept from the theory that was assigned to you.  

STEP 3:   Find a photo or picture that is an example of the concept that you have chosen

STEP 4: Post the following:

• Title: name of your concept

• Explanation of how photo/picture is related to concept

• Photo or picture that represents your concept

STEP 5:   Comment on at least 2 posts from your classmates