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Develop from behaviourist and cognitive roots and consider learning, beliefs, expectations and information processing to be central to personality.

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Cognitive-social theories

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Reflects a constant interplay between environmental demands and the way the individual processes information about the self and the world.

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Personality

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Several conditions must be meet for a behaviour to occur.
(1) The person must encode the current situation as relevant to her goals and current concerns and the situation must have enough personal meaning or value to initiate goal driven behaviour.
(2) The individual must believe that performing the behaviour will lead to the desired outcome and that she has the ability to perform it.
(3) The person must also actually have the ability to carry out the behaviour.
(4) The person must be able to regulate ongoing activity in a way that leads to goal fulfilment.
If any of these conditions is not met, behaviour will not occur.

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Conditions for behaviour

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For people to respond to a situation they must first encode it as relevant.

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Encoding

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Mental representations of the people, places, settings and events that are significant to a person.

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Personal constructs

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Refers to the importance individuals attach to various outcomes or potential outcomes.

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Personal value

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The conscious, self defined problems people attempt to solve.

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Life tasks

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Expectations relevant to desired outcomes.

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Expectancies

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A belief that a certain behaviour will lead to a particular outcome.

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Behaviour outcome expectancy

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A person’s conviction that she can perform the actions necessary to produce the desired outcome.

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Self efficacy expectancy

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Skills and attributes used for solving problems.

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Competencies

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Refers to setting goals, evaluating performance and adjusting behaviour to achieve these goals in the context of ongoing feedback.

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Self regulation

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(1) Bringing into focus the role of thought and memory in personality.
(2) Cognitive-social theory is readily testable through experimentation.

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Contributions of cognitive-social theories

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(1) They tend to emphasise the rational side of life and underemphasise of the emotional, motivational and irrational.
(2) The tendency to assume that people consciously know what they think, feel and want and hence can report it.

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Limitations of cognitive-social theories