title: Understanding cognition, choice, and behavior.
abstract: Bandura (1995) suggests that a "crusade against the causal efficacy of human thought" exists. The present paper disputes that claim, suggesting that the quest which does exist involves an understanding of self-efficacy. Examined are Bandura's shifting definitions of self-efficacy, his misunderstandings of others' work, and implications of some of his attempts to defend the construct. In the remainder of the paper Rotter's Social Learning Theory is discussed as a model of human choice behavior which recognizes the contributions of both cognitive and behavioral traditions within psychology, and has proven to be of great heuristic value.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale 62901, USA.
authors.forename: K J
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Corcoran
mesh_terms: D001288:Attention; D001519:Behavior; D002755:Choice Behavior; D003071:Cognition; D015928:Cognitive Behavioral Therapy; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D012649:Self Concept; D012919:Social Behavior