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 Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2005 10:57 am Post subject: Bandura's Theory on Motivation |
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Bandura's Theory on Motivation
Prior to getting fired I was working on a personal project about how new employees behaviors gets influenced by the staff already working there.
I would like to find other researchers in this area to share results and experience.
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Bandura believes that human behavior is learned. People acquire behaviors through the observation of others. They then imitate what they observe. This type of learning is also known as observational learning. Bandura recognizes that much learning does take place as a result of reinforcement, but he stresses that virtually all forms of behavior can be learned in the absence of directly experienced reinforcement. Rather than experiencing reinforcement ourselves for each of our actions, we can learn through vicarious reinforcement by observing the behavior of others and the consequences of their behavior. This focus on learning by observation, rather than through direct reinforcement, is a distinctive feature of Bandura's theory (Schultz & Schultz, 1998). |
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| Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2005 6:49 pm Post subject: Albert Bandura |
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Basically Bandura is a professor in Psychology, he focuses his studies on behavior. I am not even going to try to explain, I will just quote 
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Behaviorism, with its emphasis on experimental methods, focuses on variables we can observe, measure, and manipulate, and avoids whatever is subjective, internal, and unavailable -- i.e. mental. In the experimental method, the standard procedure is to manipulate one variable, and then measure its effects on another. All this boils down to a theory of personality that says that one’s environment causes one’s behavior.
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In a nut shell :
Modeling our behavior process
- Attention
- Retention
- Reproduction
- Motivation
- past reinforcement
- promised reinforcements
- vicarious reinforcement
- Negative motivations
- past punishment
- promised punishment (threats)
- vicarious punishment
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Self-regulation
- Self-observation.
- Judgment
- Self-response.
- compensation -- a superiority complex, for example, and delusions of grandeur.
- inactivity -- apathy, boredom, depression.
- escape -- drugs and alcohol, television fantasies, or even the ultimate escape, suicide.
- Regarding self-observation
- Regarding standards
- Regarding self-response
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Interesting autobiography of Albert Bandura
This can be very powerful stuff when applied to your career. Imagine how Bandura theories could help in your studies in your work attitude and in your ability to manage people. Nice work Just Got Fired .. this is very interesting bed time reading. The following is an alternative to Bandura's books:
Motivation: Theories and Principles, Fifth Edition Textbook for undergraduate students constitutes an experimentally- oriented survey of theory and research on animal and human motivation. written by Robert C. Beck.
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