Albert Bandura

Social Cognitive Theory (eBook, ePUB)

An Agentic Perspective on Human Nature
Redaktion: Cervone, Daniel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A comprehensive perspective on human nature by one of the undisputed masters of the psychological sciences

The final book by psychology's most eminent modern figure, Dr. Albert Bandura, is the definitive concise presentation of his theoretical views. In Social Cognitive Theory: An Agentic Perspective on Human Nature, Bandura explains how his half-century of research and theory on the determinants of thought and action highlight people's capacity for agency: the ability to exert control over one's actions and the courses of one's development. He further explains how his basic theory and research have been applied, world-wide, for the betterment of the human condition.

Readers will find:

• A thorough introduction to the author's agentic-perspective on human nature
• Dr. Bandura's theoretical analyses of moral behavior and moral disengagement
• Applications of the basic principles of Social Cognitive Theory to personal and social change for human betterment

An essential and groundbreaking resource for educational, health, and personality psychologists, Social Cognitive Theory: An Agentic Perspective on Human Nature will also prove indispensable to social and industrial/organizational psychologists.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781394161461
• Artikelnr.: 75802698

Autorenporträt

ALBERT BANDURA, PhD (deceased), the most highly cited figure in contemporary psychology, was known internationally for his groundbreaking lines of research on observational learning, behavioral change, moral behavior, and self-efficacy, and for his Social Cognitive Theory of human nature.

Daniel Cervone (Editor) is Professor of Psychology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He earned his bachelor's degree at Oberlin College, and his Ph.D. at Stanford University, where his graduate advisor was Albert Bandura. In addition to his faculty position at UIC, Dan has been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and a visiting faculty member at the University of Washington and Sapienza University of Rome. Dan is author of numerous journal and book publications in personality psychology and related fields, including Personality: Theory and Research, 15e (Cervone & Pervin, 2023; Wiley & Sons).

Inhaltsangabe

Author Biography ix

Foreword xi

Preface xxiii

1 A Psychology of Human Agency 1

On Agency and "Free Will" 2

Nonagentic Approaches in Contemporary Psychology 2

Agency, Consciousness, and the Brain 3

Core Properties of Human Agency 6

Forethought 6

Self-Reactiveness 6

Self-Reflection 7

Three Modes of Human Agency 8

Causal Processes: Triadic Codetermination 9

Triadic Codetermination and Determinism 11

The Development of Agency 13

Self as Agent 13

Construction of Selfhood 14

Self Identity 15

Agency in Diverse Cultural Settings 16

The Growing Primacy of Human Agency in Diverse Spheres of Life 19

Growing Primacy of Human Agency in the Process of Coevolution 22

Human Agency and the Field of Psychology 25

2 Social Modeling and Psychological Processes of Observational Learning 27

Differentiation of Modeling Phenomena 29

"Imitation" and "Identification" 29

Modeling 30

Prior Explanatory Accounts of Modeling Phenomena 33

Social Cognitive Theory of Observational Learning 34

Attentional Processes 35

Retention Processes 37

Motoric Reproduction Processes 40

Motivational Processes 41

Theoretical Contrasts 43

Scope of Modeling Influences 45

Language Acquisition 46

Moral Judgment 48

Gender Development 48

Aggression 49

Vicarious Affective Learning 51

3 Perceived Self-Efficacy as a Foundation of Agency 53

Exercise of Agency Through Self-Belief of Efficacy 53

Concepualizing Self-Efficacy Beliefs 54

From Self-Efficacy to Action: A Multiprocess Analysis 55

Selection Processes 55

Cognitive Processes 57

Motivational Processes 58

Affective Processes 60

Self-Efficacy Causality 64

Meta-Analytic Results 64

Altering Self-Efficacy Beliefs Directly, Without Enactive Experience 65

Relating Self-Efficacy Beliefs to Future Performance While Controlling for Past Performance 69

On Self-Efficacy Scales 73

Boosting Self-Efficacy Beliefs and Sources of Self-Efficacy Information 76

Performance Accomplishments 76

Vicarious Experiences 76

Verbal Persuasion 77

Emotional Arousal and Somatic State 77

Organizational Effectiveness 78

Self-Efficacy Beliefs and Cognitive Performance Among Older Adults 80

4 Shaping One's Future through Self-Regulation 83

Three Broad Classes of Motivation 84

Goal-Directed Action, Goal Effects, and Goal Theory 86

Goal Specificity 86

Goal Challenge 87

Distal and Proximal Goals 88

Self-Referent Processes in Goal Motivation 89

Affective Self-Evaluative Reactions 89

Perceived Self-Efficacy 89

Self-Set Goals 90

Documenting the Engagement of Self-Influences in Goal Motivation 91

Goal Properties and the Differential Engagement of Self-Processes 95

Affective Consequences of Goal Discrepancies 100

Self-Regulatory Processes, Education, and Occupational Opportunities 103

Self-Efficacy Beliefs, Aspirations, and Career Trajectories 103

Aspirational Standards, Achievement Motives, and External Incentives 104

Concluding Comment 106

5 Morality and the Disengagement of Moral Standards 107

Stage Theories of Moral Reasoning 108

Hierarchical Moral Superiority 109
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