Exam 10: Social Cognitive Views of Learning

Imagine you are a teacher at a junior high school.Below are four behaviors you might exhibit in your classroom.Considering the textbook's discussion of modeling, choose the behavior your students are least likely to imitate.

Social cognitive theory can best be characterized as being concerned with learning:

Which one of the following best illustrates collective self-efficacy in teachers?

Three of the following students are showing signs of self-regulated learning.Which student does not show any evidence of self-regulated learning?

Three of the following teacher statements are likely to enhance students' self-efficacy for mastering mathematics.Which one will not necessarily do so?

During a vocabulary lesson, a teacher talks aloud about how she herself tries to remember the meanings of new vocabulary words.For example, she says, "One of our words this week is herald, which means 'to announce or give notice of.' How might I remember that? Oh, I know! I can think of the Boston Herald, a newspaper that my parents subscribed to when I was young.A newspaper announces what's happening in the world, so it makes sense that it's called the Herald." The teacher's statement is a good example of:

Which one of the following examples is most likely to be the result of one or more students being trained in peer mediation?

Three of the following are aspects of self-regulated behavior as social cognitive theorists define the term.Which one is not necessarily an aspect of self-regulated behavior?

Two boys are fighting on school grounds during recess.Fighting is against school rules, and the boys know this.Even so, a teacher who sees them lets them continue to fight rather than punishing them for doing so.Judging from what social cognitive theorists say regarding what happens when expected punishments don't occur, we can predict that these boys will be:

Maria is what social cognitive theorists would describe as a self-regulating person when it comes to her moral behavior.Given this information, which one of the following descriptions best describes Maria's moral behavior?

Three of the following experiences should promote higher self-efficacy about the task in question.Which one probably won't?

Three of the following alternatives depict situations in which a teacher is facilitating the retention component of modeling.Which one does not depict such a situation?

If we consider the concept of reciprocal causation, we must conclude that the quality of students' classroom experiences is influenced:

Which one of the following alternatives illustrates a difference in effortful control?

Your students will undoubtedly know a great many things and will not be able to show you everything they know.According to social cognitive theorists, your students will be most likely to show you:

Which one of the following is the best example of a symbolic model?

Which one of the following statements best reflects the concept of collective self- efficacy?

Which one of the following is an example of vicarious punishment?

From the perspective of social cognitive theory, why might inner-city African American students learn more from an African American model who grew up in a ghetto than from a model of a different race or background?

Only one of the following definitely illustrates high self-efficacy.Which one is the best example of self-efficacy?