AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Summary. Bandura’s social cognitive theory of human functioning emphasizes the critical role of self-beliefs in human cognition, motivation, and behavior. Social cognitive theory gives prominence to a self-system that enables individuals to exercise a measure of control over their thoughts, feelings, and actions.

Detailed explanation-2: -Cognitive theory suggests that people’s interpretations of events cause their reactions to events (including emotional reactions).

Detailed explanation-3: -Dual coding theory. Cognitive load theory. Cognitive theory of multimedia learning.

Detailed explanation-4: -The self-perception theory is based on the argument that individuals interpret their actions the same way they interpret others’ actions and every individual’s action is influenced by social surroundings and not influenced by one’s free will (Bem, 1972).

Detailed explanation-5: -The cognitive appraisal theory asserts that your brain first appraises a situation, and the resulting response is an emotion. According to this theory, the sequence of events first involves a stimulus, followed by thought, which then leads to the simultaneous experience of a physiological response and the emotion.