Social Cognitive Theory

By A. Bandura. 2008

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Theories of human behavior differ in their conceptions of human nature and what they regard as the basic determinants and mechanisms governing self-development, adaptation, and change. Social cognitive theory is rooted in an agentic perspective ( Bandura 1986, 2006a). To be an agent is to influence one's own functioning and events that affect one's life. In this view people are contributors to their life circumstances, not just products of them. Keywords: Information Processing and Cognitions; Psychology

Subfields: Education, Social Psychology

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Citations in the corpus

• Socialization processes and pathways to healthy financial development for emerging young adults (2015, background): “As Bandura (1989) suggested, the decisions that offspring must make become increasingly complex as they age, and so they turn to others they perceive as having more knowledge and skills in the relevant domain of activity.”
• The Timing of Family Instability and Children’s Social Development (2008, background): “Second, social learning theory suggests that children's friendships are modeled after the behaviors and relationships they observe in the home (Bandura, 1989).”