AP PSYCHOLOGY

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PERSONALITY

SOCIAL COGNITIVE THEORIES

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Your students will undoubtedly know a great many things and will not be able to show you everything they know. According to social cognitive theorists, your students will be most likely to show you:
A
things they have learned at a concrete rather than abstract level
B
things they are especially excited about
C
things they think they will be reinforced for demonstrating
D
things they learned recently rather than a long time ago
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Should students ever be allowed to fail at classroom tasks? According to social cognitive theorists, the answer is: Yes. Occasional failures interspersed among frequent successes teach students that perseverance pays off.

Detailed explanation-2: –Social-cognitive theorists believe we learn many of our behaviors either through conditioning or by observing and imitating others.-They also emphasize the importance of mental processes: What we think about a situation affects our resulting behavior.

Detailed explanation-3: -Which one of the following statements best illustrates social cognitive theorists’ notion of reciprocal causation? The environment affects students’ behavior, but their behavior also affects the environment they experience.

Detailed explanation-4: -Which one of the following statements best characterizes cognitive psychology’s approach to learning? Students’ learning is a function of what they do, mentally, with the information they receive.

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