Psychology 2610G Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Specific Performance, Goal Setting, Observational Learning

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2610G
• Professor: Lynda Hutchinson

Document Summary

Chapter 11 social cognitive views of learning and motivation. Modelling: learning from others: learning by observing others. Influenced by: development status of observer, model prestige and competence, vicarious consequences, outcome expectancy, goal setting, self-efficacy, four elements of observational learning, attention, retention, production, motivation and reinforcement, direct reinforcement, vicarious reinforcement, self-reinforcement. Modelling: learning from others: observational learning in teaching, observational learning (modelling) can help with, directing attention, selection of already-known behaviours in unfamiliar situations, altering inhibitions, teaching new behaviours and attitudes, arousing emotions. Self-efficacy and agency: greater efficacy leads to, greater effort, persistence in the face of setbacks, higher goals, finding new strategies, low efficacy leads to, task avoidance, giving up easily. Teaching students to be self-regulating: provide opportunities to identify and analyze the task at hand, teach learning strategies, encourage students to reflect on whether they were successful and devise strategies for overcoming shortcomings in their self-regulation process.