The Social-Cognitive Perspective Objectives: Explain Banduras social cognitive theory of personality. Explain Rotters cognitive theory of personality and explain internal and external locus of control. Social-Cognitive Theories on Personality
Focus on how we interact with our culture and environment Albert Bandura is back!!! Reciprocal Determinism (traits, environment and behavior all interact and influence each other.) Social-Cognitive Theories on Personality
Internal Locus of Control External Locus of Control External Locus of Control can lead to a state of learned helplessness. Click Photos to see examples of someone with internal/ external controls and learned helplessness. Bandura is Back Social cognitive theory stems from social learning theory (under the umbrella of behaviorism). Behaviorism (as introduced by Watson) supports a direct and unidirectional pathway between stimulus and response, representing human behavior as a simple reaction to external stimuli. Social Cognitive Theory
Focus on how we interact with our environment. Reciprocal Determinism: the interacting influences between personality and environmental factors. Social Cognitive Perspective
Different People choose different environments. The TV you watch, friends you hang with, music you listen to were all chosen by you (your disposition) But after you choose the environment, it also shapes you. External Locus of Control
The perception that chance or outside forces beyond ones personal control determine ones fate. Internal Locus of Control
The perception that one controls ones own fate. Social Cognitive Perspective
Our personalities help create situations to which we react. If I expect someone to be angry with me, I may give that person the cold shoulder, creating the very behavior I expect. Personal Control Our sense of controlling our environment rather than the environment controlling us. Learned Helplessness The hopelessness and passive resignation an animal or human learns when unable to avoid repeated aversive events. Social/Cognitive Perspective
Bandura & Rotter's Approaches Bandura focuses on self-efficacy & reciprocal determinism Rotters locus of control theory emphasizes a persons internal or external focus as a major determinant of personality Evaluating... social/cognitive theories emphasizes the interaction between the environment & the individual, & meets the standards for scientific research by offering testable & objective hypothesis as well as operationally defined terms critics accuse that the developmental stages are ignored