1. Social Cognitive approach
Personality
Social Cognitive approach

2. Social Cognitive- Bandura
understanding personality involves considering the situation and thoughts before, during, and after an event

3. Albert Bandura ( )
People learn by observing and modeling others or through reinforcement

4. Social-Cognitive Approach to Personality
personalities are created by both internal and environmental influences

5. Social-Cognitive Approach to Personality
Do we control our environment, or does the environment control us?

6. Social-Cognitive Approach to Personality
Internal locus of control means that we control our own destiny and behaviors
External locus of control means that our personalities and behaviors are shaped by outside forces

7. Social-Cognitive Approach to Personality
Stresses conscious thought process. Self regulation and importance of situational influences.

8. Social-Cognitive Approach to Personality
Do you act/behave the same at home and at school?

9. Social-Cognitive Approach to Personality
Is your conscious thought different in situations?
Is there a class you are “acing”? How do you feel?
How about class you are failing?

10. Social-Cognitive Approach to Personality
People will actively process info from their social experience; info will influence goals, expectations, beliefs, and behavior, as well as the specific environment they choose.

11. Social-Cognitive Approach to Personality
Relies heavily on experimental studies.
Emphasizes cognitive mental process rather than unconsciousness
Emphasizes that sense of self can change…depending on…

12. Social-Cognitive Approach to Personality
……Thoughts
feelings
and behaviors

13. Reciprocal Determinism: Three Factors Shape Personality
The mutual influences among personality and environmental factors
An interaction of three factors:
Thoughts or cognitions
The environment
A person’s behaviorsb

15. Reciprocal Determinism

16. Social-Cognitive Approach to Personality
We learn behavior from observing them.
We learn consequences as well.
Rules and standards apply to certain behaviors.

17. Social-Cognitive Approach to Personality
Reciprocal determination-human behavior and personality as being caused by the interaction of behavioral cognitive and environmental factors.

18. Social-Cognitive Approach to Personality
Self-Esteem-comes from a person/s cognitive skills, abilities, and attitudes.
It is our self-system that guides how we perceive and react to different situations.

19. Social-Cognitive Approach to Personality
Self-efficacy-degree to which you are subjectively convinced of your own capabilities and effectiveness in meeting demands of a particular situation.

20. Social-Cognitive Approach to Personality
i.e.: Tim the “Tool Man” Taylor
Thinks he can do anything *Versus*
A person feels they can’t fix anything

21. Social-Cognitive Approach to Personality
Brain
Athlete
Tackle any academic work
Frowns on physical
Tackle a sport
Says can’t do academic
Versus

22. External Locus of Control
The perception that chance, or forces beyond a person’s control, control one’s fate

23. Internal Locus of Control
The perception that we control our own fate

24. Learned Helplessness
The hopelessness and passive resignation an animal or human learns when unable to avoid repeated bad events
Martin Seligman studied dogs that were unable to escape a painful stimulus and eventually stopped trying to escape.

25. Learned Helplessness

26. Optimistic Explanatory Style
When something goes wrong the person explains the problem as:
Temporary
Not their fault
Something limited to this situation

27. Pessimistic Explanatory Style
When something goes wrong the person tends to:
Blame themselves
Catastrophize the event
See the problem as beyond their control

28. Positive Psychology
A movement in psychology that focuses on the study of optimal human functioning and the factors that allow individuals and communities to thrive
Lead by Martin Seligman

29. The Social-Cognitive Perspective: Assessing Behavior in Situations
Module 26: Trait and Social-Cognitive Perspectives on Personality

30. Assessing Personality
Social-cognitive perspective would stress putting people into simulated actual conditions to determine how they would behave

31. The Social-Cognitive Perspective: Evaluating the Perspective
Module 26: Trait and Social-Cognitive Perspectives on Personality

32. Social-Cognitive View
Draws on learning and cognitive research
Fails to consider the influence of emotions and motivation on behavior