Bandura Human Agency in Social Cognitive Theory英文电子书.pdf

Human Agency in Social Cognitive Theory Albert Bandura Stanford University ABSTRACT: Thepresent article examines the nature and forces, the self system is merely a repository and conduit function of human agency within the conceptual model of for them. In this conception of agency, self-referent pro- triadic reciprocal causation. In analyzing the operation cesses are epiphenominal by-products of conditioned re- of human agency in this interactional causal structure, sponses that do not enter into the determination of action. social cognitive theory accords a central role to cognitive, For the material eliminativist, self-influences do not exist. vicarious, self-reflective, and self-regulatory processes. The People are not intentional cognizers with a capacity to issues addressed concern the psychological mechanisms influence their own motivation and action; rather, they through which personal agency is exercised, the hierar- are neurophysiological computational machines. Such chical structure of self-regulatory systems, eschewal of the views fail to explain the demonstrable explanatory and dichotomous construal of self as agent and self as object, predictive power of self-referent factors that supposedly and the properties of a nondualistic but nonreductional are devoid of causal efficacy or do not even exist. conception of human agency. The relation of agent cau- Social cognitive theory subscribes to a model of sality to thefundamental issues offreedom and deter- emergent interactive agency (Bandura,