Transcription of Human Agency in Social Cognitive Theory
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Human Agency in Social Cognitive Theory Albert Bandura Stanford University ABSTRACT: The present article examines the nature and function of Human Agency within the conceptual model of triadic reciprocal causation. In analyzing the operation of Human Agency in this interactional causal structure, Social Cognitive Theory accords a central role to Cognitive , vicarious, self-reflective, and self-regulatory processes. The issues addressed concern the psychological mechanisms through which personal Agency is exercised, the hierar- chical structure of self-regulatory systems, eschewal of the dichotomous construal of self as agent and self as object, and the properties of a nondualistic but nonreductional conception of Human Agency .
analytic thinking (Bandura & Wood, 1989; Wood & Ban- dura, 1989). Quality of analytic thinking, in turn, affects performance accomplishments. People's perceptions of their efficacy influence the types of anticipatory scenarios they construct and reit- erate. Those who have a high sense of efficacy visualize
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