BANDURA STUDY GUIDE

 


1. What are Bandura's criticisms of Skinner?
 

2. How does Bandura differ from Skinner?
 

3. What did Bandura hold about learning?
 

4. What is Bandura's theory about reinforcement?
 

5. What importance does Bandura give to internal variables?
 

6. Describe the observational learning approach.
 

7. The fundamental feature of Bandura's theory is .
 

8. What was Bandura's position on operant conditioning ?
 

9. Bandura's famous Bobo doll experiment demonstrated the power of .
 

10. In modeling, new responses are acquired .
 

11. What characterized the behavior of children who watched an adult model attack a Bobo doll?
 

12. According to Bandura, parents of aggressive children are probably .
 

13. What does Bandura say about verbal modeling?
 

14. Watching a model behave can lessen our normal restraints, a process Bandura calls .
 

15. Disinhibition refers to .
 

16. The disinhibiting power of modeling is enhanced when .
 

17. According to Bandura, criminals or psychopaths .
 

18. Under what conditions is modeling as a technique for acquiring and changing behaviors effective?
 

19. In modeling experiments, what is the effect of decreasing the similarity between model and subject decreases?
 

20. What are the important characteristics of good models?
 

21. A child is more likely to model its behavior after .

22. Which kinds of behaviors are more likely to be imitated?
 

23. Which kinds of behavior are most likely to be imitated by children?
 

24. People most likely to imitate a model's behavior are .
 

25. What are the factors in Bandura's theory of observational learning?
 

26. What are the processes involved in observational learning?
 

27. To retain behavior that has been observed, a person must .
 

28. What do we know about internal representational systems ?
 

29. In the production processes, what has been observed and retained is .
 

30. What part do Incentive and motivational processes play in observational learning?
 

31. In modeling and observational learning, what is the role of reinforcement?
 

32. Bandura sees the self as .
 

33. Bandura says much of our behavior is regulated by a continuing process of .
 

34. What does Bandura say about self-reinforcement and its importance in learning?
 

35. If you want competent, confident people, find ways to increase their sense of .
 

36. Self-efficacy is .
 

37. What characterizes people high in self-efficacy?
 

38. The most influential source of efficacy judgments is .
 

39. What effect does seeing other people fail at some activity have on the observer?
 

40. What are ways of increasing self-efficacy?
 

41. Describe the developmental aspects of modeling.
 

42. What is true about self-efficacy in old age?
 

43. Bandura's approach to behavior modification is based on the assumption that .
 

44. The essence of Bandura's approach to psychological problems and therapy is .

45. Describe the modeling technique in psychotherapy.
 

46. A snake phobia can be eliminated by .
 

47. One advantage of modeling as therapy is .
 

48. The aspect of Bandura's work that has been criticized on ethical grounds is .
 

49. Critics charge that behavior modification .
 

50. On the other hand, Bandura argues that behavior modification .
 

51. Bandura sees human nature as influenced by .
 

52. Triadic reciprocality is the interaction of .
 

53. What is Bandura's position on free will versus determinism?
 

54. What does Bandura caution about the effects of reinforcement?
 

55. Bandura's assessment techniques include .
 

56. What characterizes Bandura's research?
 

57. What does research suggest about women and self-efficacy?
 

58. What characteristics behaviors have been associated with high self-efficacy?
 

59. Research on self-efficacy shows that it is .
 

60. Self-efficacy has been shown to influence .
 

61. What characterizes people high in self-efficacy?
 

62. A study of 9-year-olds who watched violent TV programs found .
 

63. What are the advantages of observational learning?
 

64. Critics of Bandura's approach argue that it .









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