Review of chapters of the book: Social Foundations of Thought

and Action, A Social Cognitive Theory by Albert Bandura

Chapter one
In this chapter the introduction to the book's themes addressed, talk about that
over the years many theorists have tried to explain how human behavior, which is
influenced by our environment works, as well as our cognitive processing.
He explains the theories of Freud and Skinner in his attempt to explain human
behavior, and its epistemology. Ending Bandura theory explaining that both the
environment and personal factors (disorders, cognitive processes and biological
events) are responsible for our behavior. They are however, also mentions that the
environment is a pre-established social construction but is experienced personally.
Chapter two
In this chapter we explained what the observational learning, which is one process
that watching others learn certain things that then apply in our behavior, and
explains that most of our learning is done in this way. For this learning model (who
will copy the behavior), modeling (what we learn) and the meme (which contains
modeling, ideas, behaviors, tastes) you are needed.
It is carried out in 4 steps, attention, retention, production, incentive and motivation.
Chapter three
According to the theory of Bandura, actions have effects that translate to results,
which produce themselves and thus learning new behavioral structures, this is key
to understanding human behavior.
The thought is structured by rules, which govern how we act, and that the results
from more positive and attached to the rules are, the more they will be kept in our
mind until you perform automatic. Of course this will always be subject to feedback,
which will improve the quality of our actions. This process is called "inctive
learning" and is built by 3 factors: the antecedent, the Stimul and the response to
Consequences.
But there is also an important part and is the self-awareness. Which is governed by
social influences, allows metacognition is an important skill in processing
information, this process is called eneactive learning and is different because it is
done on a conscious level and gives the opportunity to distinguish whether the
process was right or wrong.

Chapter four
This chapter talks about how an idea or behavior spreads in a society, then even
lead to other societies, this mediated by the media and technologies of our era.
This is thanks to the constant search for innovation by humans, then it is innovation
expands communication channels with the help of time and manages to change
social systems.
Chapter five
This chapter was explained by us, so I understand that it was only exhibitions of
my colleagues, I chose to leave this blank.
Chapter six
This chapter discusses the issue of incentive motivators. As that defined as a
behavior that I will be present with more or less frequently, these can be based on
biological and cognitive processes (symbolic representations, internal standards,
and personal assessments).
The same incentives are divided into categories: primary needs, sensory, social
and monetary.
However, there are variations in the structure of these incentives, for example, an
incentive not have the same power in an individual to a group area, mutual support
social help much in some cases, they go through a process where they acquire,
generalize and stabilized in social practice.
Chapter seven:
Here we talk about the vicars motivators because they are an important part when
talking about human behavior. Most of our behaviors are learned because we
observe the behavior of others, as well as its consequence.
This allows us to be involved to risk less of a negative or dangerous situation, and
people like to do things that they know will result.