Exam 8: Social Cognitive Views of Learning

Modelling can be a very effective teaching strategy.Choose a specific behaviour you might teach your students through modelling.Then describe how you would take into account the four essential processes necessary for student modelling to occur.

Three of the following strategies are consistent with the recommendations in the textbook for helping students learn to engage in self-evaluation.Which strategy, although possibly beneficial for other reasons, is least likely to promote self-evaluation?

Trudy makes an obscene gesture in class, and the teacher punishes her severely.Other students in class observe both the gesture and the punishment.Based on social cognitive theory, what can we guess about what those students have learned and how they are likely to behave in the future?

According to Albert Bandura, one of the original social cognitivists, perceptions of self-efficacy are:

What is the cause of aggression in children?

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

From a social cognitive theory perspective, which one of the following children most clearly reflects a key ingredient of self-regulation as social cognitive theorists define it?

Natalie is sometimes too impulsive when she answers multiple choice questions on standardized achievement tests.She picks an answer before she has even read all the alternatives.Natalie knows she has a problem and would really like to change her behaviour.The best strategy we can use to help Natalie is:

Andre is caught cheating on a homework assignment.He suffers no consequences for doing so, even though cheating is in clear violation of school policy.From a social cognitive perspective, which one of the following predictions can we make about Andre's future behaviour?