Examples Of Social Cognitive Perspective

Social-cognitive perspective is a psychological perspective that examines how people interpret, analyze, remember, and use information about themselves, others, social interactions, and relationships. This perspective is considered to be less individualistic, due to it being the individuals interacting with his or her own environment. The social-cognitive perspective is also associated with the principals of observational learning, which is how we primarily learn our social interactions, by observing others and their behaviors.
In social-cognitive theories, it is said that we develop beliefs about ourselves, as being able to control, or being controlled, by our environments. This is known as locus of control, and is defined as the degree to which we expect that outcomes in our lives depend on our own actions and personal
There are two categories with locus of control, the internal locus of control and the external locus of control. Each of these, are identified by the types of beliefs that a person may have, and each can have their own set of consequences. Internal locus of control, is the belief that outcomes occur because of our own efforts, due to this, these individuals are more likely to be achievement-oriented, which in turn can make them more independent and successful in life. Internals are said to believe that their actions and behaviors will bring positive outcomes, this could cause issues if a person is determined to have a positive outcome, and the outcome isn’t what they wanted, or was expecting. I would assume that internals would also have problems with things being “out of their hands” or having to depend on someone else,