Humanistic Approach to Cognition Diana C. Villa Professor Frank Gengaro Cognitive Processes December 4, 2018 “In social cognitive theory, perceived self-efficacy results from diverse sources of information conveyed vicariously and through social evaluation, as well as through direct experience” (Bandura, 1977). When it comes to the influence society has on us as human being, we often underestimate its contribution to our development of attitudes, abilities, and cognitive skills that make up our self-system. This system plays an essential role in our self-efficacy which according to Bandura, is our personal judgement of “how well one can execute courses of action required to deal with prospective situations” (Bandura, 1977). The concept of self-efficacy is important to psychologist Albert Bandura’s social cognitive theory, which emphasizes the role society plays thru observational learning, social experience, and reciprocal determinism when it comes to the development of a personality (Bandura, 1977). Human beings are complex creatures with a wide range of mental processes; cognitive approach emphasizes the study of mental processes related to acquisition, storage and the retrieval of knowledge. Human cognition can be viewed as what we as humans learn, how we acquire knowledge, and how we construct our self and the world around us; all this affects our perspective and how we react to certain situations. This paper aims to analyze and discuss more about human cogni ...
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