Ch. 10 Learning Log

What?
This chapter talks about the social cognitive views of learning. There are so many behaviors we have learned by observing other people by them doing them first. It is by nature that we sometimes like to copy what others are doing. This chapter will explore the social cognitive theory, which is the perspective that can help us understand what and how people learn by observing others, and how, in the process, people begin to assume control over their own behavior.
With everything there are many different views. There are social cognitive views of reinforcement and punishment. The consequences have an effect on behavior only if learners are aware of the contingency. Learners form expectations about the likely consequences of future actions and behave accordingly. And with the learners their expectations are influenced by what happens to other people as well as to themselves.
There are many behaviors that can be learned through modeling. Those are academic skills, aggression, and interpersonal behaviors. However, modeling may affect behaviors by observational learning effect, response facilitation effect, response inhibition effect and response disinhibition effect. In order to help students learn from models we need to have their attention, retention, motor reproduction, and motivation.
Self-efficacy is a person’s self-constructed judgment about his or her ability to execute certain behaviors or reach certain goals. Self-efficacy affects behavior and cognition through choice of activities, goals, effort and persistence, learning and achievement.

So What?
I think everyone in the world needs to read this chapter. They need to realize that what their decisions are not only affect themselves but everyone around them. It amazes me when people do the stupidest things and think it doesnt matter what they do because it only affects them. From this chapter we learn that people like to copy what other people do either the good things of the bad things people do.

Now What?
Knowing that all the people are like this it is important as a future teacher to make sure that I am being the best example I possibly can be. Since you never know who will be watching you. Also it is important to make all my students to be good examples because there are so many people who look up to them. All the students and myself need to have a high self-efficacy. We all need to have certain goals that we want to teach.