Chapter 10 - Lauren Lynch

This chapter was about the Social Cognitive Views of Learning.
"Social Cognitive theory has its early roots in behaviorism and thus addresses the effects of reinforcement and punishment to some extent.... increasingly incorporated cognitive processes into its explanations of learning"
This is the theory that I feel like I agree with the most. It considers both behaviors and cognitive processes. As teachers we have to keep in mind that our students aren't influenced solely by either aspect. The assumptions that are made in Social Cognitive Theory take that into account.
One of the things that I like the most about SCT is the modeling theories. We learned about mirror neurons in one of my psychology classes last semester in monkeys. These neurons fired primarily when the monkey reached for a peanut with his own hand. The neurons also fired, however, when the experimenter reached for a peanut with his own hand. Therefore, this section on modeling stood out to me. It makes sense that we learn from observing models. Our brains are wired to learn this way. As educating, it's important to remember that when teaching. Our students are probably going to learn better when we model for them. Young learners are going to become better readers if they are exposed to their parents reading at home.
"Self efficacy is a person's self-constructed judgment about his or her ability to execute behaviors or reach certain goals"
I had learned about self-efficacy several years ago in Ed Pysch 210, but we didn't really talk about how student develop it, so this was new to me. It never occurred to me to think about how soon they really can develop their self-efficacy. Ormrod talks about helping a student become successful in different tasks in a variety of content areas. I feel like often, we think that we should give them easy tasks to help develop them, but the book suggests giving them more challenging tasks so that they will experience a higher quality success.