PSYCH-220 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Descriptive Knowledge, Social Cognitive Theory, Procedural Knowledge
28 Oct 2020
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Bandura and walters: social learning and personality (1959) Bandura: social foundations of thought and action. Bringing in more of the cognitive perspective. His contributions are said to be monumental . Perhaps the most influential volume in personality psychology in the past half century . Based a lot of his work off of systems theory. We reason about the world using language. We contemplate the present, past, and hypothetical future events. Ways of thinking about problems and behavioral skills in solving them. Declarative knowledge (harrisburg is capital of pa) Procedural knowledge (driving; hard to describe in words; let me show you ) May be better at using our skills in certain situations. Skills may only be useful in certain situations. Beliefs: what we believe the world is like. Expectations: future oriented (what a punishment will be, how stressed we will feel, etc. ); situational variability; highly idiosyncratic (we all have our own unique ways of generating expectations about things)
