Social – Cognitive Theory of Personality

These documents will help you in understanding the concept of Social – Cognitive Theory of Personality

Cognitive Strategies: Cognitive strategies are the different perceptions of a specific event. For instance, what may be “threatening” for you may be “challenging” to another person.
Competencies: It refers to our intellectual capabilities as well as social skills.
Expectancies: Expectancies refer to the expected results of different behaviors that are realized by the person inside his mind.
Observational learning: It is a process by which a person changes his behavior based on observations of another person’s behavior.
Self-regulatory systems: These refer to the group of rules and standards that people adapt to in order to regulate their behavior.
Self –reinforcement: The process of evaluating our own behavior according to personal standards and provide ourselves with reinforcements such as selfapproval or self- reproach.
Social- Cognitive theory: It is a learning theory based on the idea that people learn by watching what others do, and human thought processes are central to understanding personality.
Subjective Values: It means the respective value of each possible outcome of various behaviors.