Social Foundations of Thought and Action

Bandura, A. (1986). Social Foundations of Thought and Action: A Social Cognitive Theory. Prentice-Hall.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Textbook

Year

1986

Link

https://archive.org/details/socialfoundation0000band

Cited from

psychology, sociology_anthropology

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3 citations across 3 artifacts.

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Primes

• Collective Efficacy
  • This is formally isomorphic to reinforcement-learning for multi-agent systems, where the group maintains a value function for collective action that conditions policy and is updated by collective outcomes

    This sourceComprehensive statement of social cognitive theory and reciprocal determinism; foundation for the belief-behavior-outcome feedback loop scaled to the group level.

• Observational Learning (Social Learning)
  • Critically, the learning signal is not the observer's own reinforcement — it is the observed reinforcement of the model, which the observer uses as a vicarious training signal.

    This sourceComprehensive operationalization of social cognitive theory; extends self-efficacy to learning, motivation, and organizational contexts.

• Self-Efficacy
  • The function is: π depends on B_τ in a monotonic way (higher B_τ → more effort, longer persistence, more approach, less avoidance).

    This sourceComprehensive operationalization of social cognitive theory; extends self-efficacy to learning, motivation, and organizational contexts.

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