Social Cognitive Theory : A Bandura Thought Review published in 1982-2012

Social Cognitive Theory of Moral Thought and Action

f/sla from learner perspectives: a social activity or a cognitive process

in the past couple of decades sociocultural theory of sla and its implications in efl contexts have attracted attentions of research circles worldwide and aroused some controversies. firth and wagner (1997) have questioned the principles of the cognitive view which gives importance to mental constructs in favor of sociocultural view which highlights social and contextual constructs. but if soci...

Cognitive load theory: more food for thought

A scientific theory is an explanation of a set of related observations, phenomena, or events based upon one or more hypotheses and verified multiple times by the evidence of detached groups of researchers. Cognitive load theory (CLT) was designed ‘‘to provide guidelines intended to assist in the presentation of information in a manner that encourages learner activities that optimize intellectua...

A review of randomised controlled trials published in Archives of Disease in Childhood from 1982-96.

The current movement towards evidencebased medical practice involves integrating individual clinical expertise with the explicit and informed use of the best available external clinical evidence from a systematic review of published research, to reach decisions about the care of individual patients. The recent creation of a Centre for Evidence-Based Child Health in London, UK illustrates the in...

Social Cognitive Theory*

Circumstances that led to the development of the Theory: The SCT has its origins in the discipline of psychology, with its early foundation being laid by behavioral and social psychologists. The SLT evolved under the umbrella of behaviorism, which is a cluster of psychological theories intended to explain why people and animals behave the way that they do. Behaviorism, introduced by John Watson...