2025-10-09 15:57:40 UTC

Albert Bandura's famous Bobo doll experiment is an example demonstrating social cognitive theory. In this study, children who observed an adult model acting aggressively toward a doll were more likely to imitate that aggressive behavior when given the opportunity to play with the doll themselves.

2025-10-09 15:59:03 UTC

-The difference between behaviorism and the social cognitive theory : there are just stimuli and learner in the behaviorism but in the sct we have environment also.

-We can learn by observing others.

-There is reciprocal causality in the sct.

- the motor, sensory skills and the celebral systems are the main components of the sct.

2025-10-09 15:59:07 UTC

In behaviorism, stimulus-response model and learning through reinforcement and punishment was dominant. Bandura introduced cognitive, environmental, social factors, and learning through observation also.

Triadic Reciprocal Causality
Personal Factors (teacher) (attitudes, personality), environmental factors (classroom) (social context) and behavior factors (students) (action, choices)

there is both reciprocal and also triadic relationship.
No single dominance.

Mechanisms of learning:
learning is a process,
knowledge transforms a symbols, which it guides our actions.

Enactive vs. Vicarious Learning
Enactive learning: learning through doing
Vicarious Learning: Learning through observation
Not one factor is dominant again, combining both is the best version for learning effectively.

Learning vs. Performance:
Learning: acquiring knowledge can happen without immediate action
Performance: Demonstrating acquired knowledge through actions, it can be assessed

Self-regulation & agency
People have a desire to control our lives. People are active agents in environment. They can change and sustain their behavior and affect their lives.

Modeling:

Seeing a model, seeing, watching it can facilitates or disinhibit behavior.

attention you attentionally focus on observed behavior
retention: organizing info

Production: images to actions
motivation: action to performance.

Self-Efficacy:
one’s belief about the capacity to do and achieve the desired results
social persuasion (you can do it!, it’s too hard for u)
physiological: emotional statement
vicarious experience: observing similar others to succeed or fail

Goals: settled standards for directing and motivating ourselves.
Values: perceived of importance of learning

we can learn by observing others, develop beliefs about ourselves, set goals, and regulate ourselves,

2025-10-09 15:59:44 UTC

Enactive vs. Vicarious Learning

Enactive is learning through doing and vicarious is learning through observation. (Even reading a book about other people is observation.)

Summary Notes on Social Cognitive Theory by Meryem MOLDUR