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Title: Albert Bandura theory of Social interaction
Description: The socio-cognitive theory is a learning theory that posits that people learn by watching what others do. It emphasizes that, if people are motivated to learn a particular behaviour, they could do so through clear observation.

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Albert Bandura's Socio-Cognitive Theory

Introduction
The socio-cognitive theory is a learning theory that posits that people learn by watching what
others do
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According to Albert Bandura people acquire complex behaviour
through modeling
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Bandura stressed drat behaviour, cognition and the environment
mutually influence each other, a process lie called reciprocal determination
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The
television here is an environmental factor
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Different people prefer different environments
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These environments shape the individual’s personality
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Different people respond to the environment differently
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They perceive the world as more threatening and read more anxiously than
individuals who are non-anxious
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The way people perceive and treat other people influences how they, in turn, treat them
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People with easy-going
temperaments attract and enjoy close and supportive friendship with others than difficult
individuals
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These are:
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This is the ability to learn complex behaviour horn watching and
imitating others
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Self-regulation also known as self-efficacy
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If involves the thought process because individuals must
believe and think how to perform a given behaviour
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The attentional process
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This involves accurately observing the model in order to imitate
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Retention process
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It involves two processes of mental representation/coding of the model's
actions and behaviour: These are imagery coding (representing images of the model's actions
in the mind) and verbal coding (representing the model's actions or images in form of language
or verbal representations in
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This is the ability to reproduce or re-do the actions of the
model
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For example, walking, talking and behaving like the model
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Motivational process
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It includes the incentives or motivational factors
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Young children
write letters the same way their teachers do because they are given reinforcement, usually
rewards or incentives such as sweets or stars drawn on their faces and hands
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Application of the Socio-Cognitive Theory
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For example, adults should help the children choose appropriate
friends and individuals to socialize with
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Since television has the potential of inculcating aggression in children, appropriate
programmes should be chosen so drat die children learn only desirable behaviors’
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Since children are active and inquisitive about everything and anything they come into
contact with, parents, teachers and caregivers should respond appropriately to the
children’s questions without restrictions
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References
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W
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Concepts of trait and personality
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W
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Personality traits: Their classification and
measurement
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Gordon Allport
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Online at:
http://webspace
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edu/cgboer/allport
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(1969)
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New York: Holt,
Rinehart & Winston
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& Walters, R
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Social Learning and Personality Development
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Rethinking and reclaiming the
interdisciplinary role of personality psychology: The science of human nature
should be the center of the social sciences and humanities
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The scientific analysis of personality
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Cattell, R
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(1965)
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Baltimore:

Penguin books
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Emergent integration in contemporary personality
psychology
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(1996)
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Journal of Research in Personality, 30, 389-399
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Dweck, C
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(1996)
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Journal of
Research in Personality, 30, 348-362
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Epstein, S
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Recommendations for the future development of personality
psychology
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What do we know when we know a person? Journal of
Personality, 63, 365-396
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McCrae, R
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Trait explanations in personality
psychology
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McClelland, D
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(1996)
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& Njuguna J
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Personality development
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Pervin, L
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(1985)
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Annual Review of Psychology, 36, 83-114
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Revelle, W
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Personality processes
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Seventh Edition
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The rank-order consistency of
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Views of the future
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Title: Albert Bandura theory of Social interaction
Description: The socio-cognitive theory is a learning theory that posits that people learn by watching what others do. It emphasizes that, if people are motivated to learn a particular behaviour, they could do so through clear observation.