PSY 3304 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Guilford Press, Albert Bandura, Determinism

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3304
• Professor: Dave Miranda

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Stability: the signature since people behave differently according to social situations. Hard to collect data, very few researchers do it. More idealistic and time consuming: but some researchers still do it. In l. a. pervin and o. p. john (eds. ), handbook of personality, theory and research, 2nd edition (pp. Social cognitive theory explains psychosocial functioning in terms of triadic reciprocal causation (bandura, 1986). The term causation is used to mean functional dependence between events. In this model of reciprocal causality, internal personal factors in the form of cognitive, affective and biological events; behavioral patterns; and environmental events all operate as interacting determinants that influence one another bidirectionally. In triadic causation there is no fixed pattern for reciprocal interaction. Rather, the relative contribution of each of the constituent classes of influences depends on the activities, situational circumstances, and sociostructural constraints and opportunities. Social cognitive theory distinguishes between three types of environmental structures (bandura, 1997a).