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Self-Control
Self-Efficacy
Past performance
Vicarious experience or observation of others
Verbal persuasion
Individuals’ readings of their internal physiological states
- Self-discipline that allows a person to learn to perform a behavior even though there is no external pressure to do so.
- Conditions indicating a person is using self-control:
- Individual is engaging in a low-probability behavior
- Self-reinforcers are available to the learner
- The learner sets goals that determine when self-reinforcement takes place
- The learner administers reinforcers when the goal is achieved
Self-Efficacy
- A person’s belief about his or her ability to perform a particular behavior successfully.
- Not the same as self-esteem
- Self-efficacy affects learning in three ways:
- The activities and goals that individuals choose for themselves
- The effort that individuals exert
- The persistence with which a person tries to master new and sometimes difficult tasks
- Four sources of self-efficacy:
Past performance
Vicarious experience or observation of others
Verbal persuasion
Individuals’ readings of their internal physiological states