COMM 1225 Study Guide - Final Guide: Lifetime Movies, Albert Bandura, Social Cognitive Theory

• School: Northeastern University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMM 1225
• Professor: Susan L.Mello

Document Summary

Follow william"s death, this communicated benefit of suicide to public audiences and raise concerns over the possibility of copycat suicides (genie, you"re free- academy tweet) (also the detailed description of his death from police and coroners--observational learning) Meryl streep is thinking about her academy award track record. As a result, she has confidence in the success of her future performances as an actress. Bandura refers to this distinctly human process of contemplation as (self-reflective capacity) Albert bandura argues that personal characteristics, environment/events and behavior all interact to determine human thoughts and behavior- a concept he refers to as (triadic. The likelihood of this increase when the individual engaging in the observed behavior is attractive (modeling) (also perceived motivation or reward, age) In their study of reality dating programs, ferris found that heavy viewing was positively associated with dating-related attitudes (that dating is a game). However, because the authors used a cross-sectional survey, this threat to establishing causation remained. (temporal precedence)