Social Cognitive Theory: Factors and Implications

INTRODUCTION
The social cognitive theory is used in the education, psychology and communication and
holds that portion of knowledge acquisition of human which can be related to observing others
directly within context to social interactions, outside media influences and experiences (Beeson,
Whitney and Peterson, 2017). This theory is propounded by Albert Bandura as the extension of
the social learning theory given by him only. According to this theory, when people mainly
observe the model performing the behavior and the consequence of that behavior, they usually
remember the sequence of its events and use that information in order to guide the subsequent
behaviors. In other words, the people does not learn new behaviors by trying solely them but
rather survival of humanity is dependent on the replication of other’s action. This essay shall
cover the three factors of this theory and its implication on three case scenarios.
MAIN BODY
The social cognitive theory is based on the behavior of people. it is a learning theory
which is based on the gist being agreed that environment of the one grows up which contributes
to the behavior and the individual person is therefore the cognition which is just important
(Connolly, 2017). People learn through observing others with the behavior, environment and
cognition which act as primary factors that influences the development in reciprocal triadic
relationship. Each of the behavior witnesses the change in the way a person think which is
cognition and similarly. An environment in which one is raised influences its later behavior.
Under this theory, the reproduction of observed behavior is influenced through getting
the learner in believe about its personal abilities to complete the behavior completely. The
behavior is the response which a person receives after they normally perform a behavior and the
environment or its aspects influences the ability of individual to complete the behavior. The
learning may occur without the change in behavior (Johnston, Brezina and Crank, 2019). Parts in
an individual's intelligence learning can be closely linked to watching people in the form of
social relationships, perceptions, and outside media factors, according to social cognitive theory
(SCT), which is applied in psychology, education, and communication. Albert Bandura
developed this theory as an expansion of his social learning theory. People recall the chain of