MOD006960: Social Cognitive Theory and Individual Behavior Analysis

This report examines Albert Bandura's Social Cognitive Theory (SCT), focusing on how personal, environmental, and behavioral factors influence individual actions and behavior change. The report highlights key components such as self-efficacy, behavioral capability, expectations, self-control, observational learning, and reinforcements. It explores the agentic perspective of SCT, emphasizing self-organization, self-reflection, and proactive behavior. The discussion includes verification processes, like enactive, vicarious, logical, and social verification, and their impact on beliefs and thinking. The report also touches upon the role of perceived self-efficacy in human motivation and the sources that contribute to it, including mastery experiences, vicarious experiences, and social persuasion. While the provided content touches upon some aspects of SCT, it is not directly responsive to the assignment brief and lacks the necessary case study analysis, use of provided course materials, or adherence to the specified word count and referencing guidelines. The content needs significant revision to align with the assignment requirements.

PERSONAL, ENVIRONMENTAL, BEHAVIOURAL FACTORS FROM BANDURA’S SOCIAL COGNITIVE
THEORY MODEL.
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Social cognitive theory was started in 1960 by Albert Bandura. The social cognitive
theory helps in defining influence of individual actions, experiences and environmental
factors. This enables the opportunities for social support by managing expectations, self -
efficacy and also by using the observational learning. There are several components of the
social cognitive theory that affects individual behaviour change. These consists of the
following:
Self -efficacy – This is known as belief which an individual has to control. This is
helpful in executing particular type of behaviour in order to manage the work.
Behavioural capability – This is helpful for understanding and grabbing skills that
will help to perform specific behaviour.
Expectations – It is determined that what are the actual outcomes of behavioural
change.
Self -control – This consists of properly regulating and monitoring desired behaviour.
Observational learning – It includes the watching and observing of outcomes that are
helpful in performing desired behaviour.
Reinforcements - There is need to promote incentives and rewards for encouraging
behaviour change.
There are several psychological theories that are given for human behaviour. It is analysed
that view of human nature is reviewed within several theories. This is concluded that several
theorists think that human functioning has to be explored in order to manage the effective
flow of operations (Bandura, 2016). There are other conceptions of human nature in which
physiological theories are managed by using effective theories. These affect potentialities of
humans at a wide range. In recent years, it is concluded that resurgence within interest has

occurred and self- phenomenon for the work is developed. There is self -system which helps
to manage casual processes.
There are many personal factors that are involved in providing effective regulation of
attentional processes, emotion activation, schematic processes and psychobiologic
functioning.
In context of agentic SCsocio-cognitive aspect, different people are self-organising, self-
reflecting and proactive (Compeau, and Higgins, 2015). There are several individuals who
have the power for influencing own actions for producing results. In is analysed that having
control over motivation, processes, actions are essential for operating properly through
mechanism of personal management. Human agency has been conceptualising that that
different ways are present for managing autonomous agency and mechanical reactive agency.
There is notion which reflects upon the thinking that humans operate according to entire
agents like advocates. There is different type of agency required within the agency (Flower,
2014). It is concluded that human action is needed for socially situated products. There is
need to have dynamic interplay for personal and situational influences.
Another approach for self- system includes constructing a mechanism consisting of reactive
agency. There is an internal system which is used to operate mechanistically on action. It is
seen that individuals are exerting to no motivation. It is seen that the process for thought
verification consists of comparing how an individual’s thought matches with the indicator of
reality (Harrison and et.al, 2017). In context of industry scenario, there are four types of
verification which consists of vicarious, enactive, logical and persuasive. In context of the
enactive verification, it is seen that they rely upon closeness among the one’s thoughts as well
as results. There are good matches that lend validity to the mismatches and thoughts. In
context of vicarious mode of thought verification and management.
There are several metacognitive activities which are managed by patterns and forceful actions
that arise through inferential manner. In context of logical verification, there are individuals
who can check for different fallacies within their thinking. There are several metacognitive
activities which are involved in fostering dependable thinking and views. There are some
forceful actions that arise from various beliefs (Schunk, 2019). This creates social
environment and metacognitive activity which fosters various thinking. Social verification is
helpful for fostering bizarre views and thoughts of reality. This can be explained with an
example that when there are shared beliefs of reference group then it encapsulates the social

ties and influences. There is need to illustrate cultist belief in order to enhance deductive
reasoning.
Perceived self- efficacy is concerned with the self-referent thought which affects human
motivation. As per efficacy, there are certain ways to control desired results in order to
produce little incentives. Self-efficacy believed that constructing of four principles can be
helpful. There are some authentic and influential sources which are mastery experiences. It is
attained by handling different problems for sustaining and attaining success steps. Growth
within organisation is important as failure is not the option for any company which needs to
increase it is revenue. There is another way to create and strengthen beliefs for personal
efficacy. This can be done through vicarious experience. There are several individuals who
see other people like themselves and they require to increase the success and effort level of
the individual. There are different ways which are being used for mastering activities. Social
persuasion is known as way for strengthening belief of people within efficacy (Schunk,
2016). According to views of different individuals, there is need to put more efforts for
managing people and placing them for higher authorities. People depends upon emotional
and physical states for analysing their own abilities and skills. In context of various activities,
this is concluded that stamina and acquiring proper functioning. These people are concerned
about tension, depression, signs of personal deficiency.
Although this contains some related ideas in that it addresses the SCT, this isn’t a response to
the task that is set out in the brief. It doesn’t mention the case study and it doesn’t use the
sources we’ve studied on the course or the others on the reading list. Look again at the brief
and at what we’ve done in class. Remember that you have until May 7th, so although you do
need to start again from scratch if you focus hard on responding to what you’re being asked
to do you can still pass the course.