Deck 5: Social, Cultural, and Environmental Theories Part I

Question 1

In the 1960s, Albert Bandura and others proposed that which behaviorist principle-in which a person learns behavior through negative and positive reinforcement-also worked when the reinforcement was directed toward other people?

A) Operant conditioning
B) Classical conditioning
C) Relevant conditioning
D) Permanent conditioning

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Which interactive process is why we have included Social Cognitive Theory as a social/environmental theory rather than an individual-oriented theory?

A) Self-efficacy
B) Value expectancy
C) Decisional balance
D) Reciprocal determinism

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Which of the following is a broad area of theory whose implications range from sociological and health-related applications to communications, political opinion, esoteric mathematical and systems theory applications, and others?

A) Social Cognitive Theory
B) Social Network Theory
C) Diffusion of Innovations
D) Social Marketing

Answer 3

B

Question 4

The health promotion goal of which of the following is to have people voluntarily adopt the health behavior or health technology because they come to view the behavior (or technology) as in their interest?

A) Social Cognitive Theory
B) Social Network Theory
C) Diffusion of Innovations
D) Social Marketing

Question 5

Which of the following began as a theoretical offshoot of behaviorism, which is a theory about how people learn that posits individual behavior as a response to conditioning?

A) Social Cognitive Theory
B) Social Network Theory
C) Diffusion of Innovations
D) Social Marketing

Question 6

Which of the following refers to the "uptake" of the behavior or technology by the intended audience?

A) Diffusion
B) Dissemination
C) Adoption
D) Implementation

Question 7

An ego-centered network includes reciprocal information from other members of a network.

Question 8

The idea of self-efficacy as a key element in how people change behavior moves beyond the mechanistic conditioning process of behaviorism and gives individuals a role in their own processes of change.

Question 9

Social Cognitive Theory is very complex, and because it includes so many constructs that are said to be related to behavior, it can be viewed as less of a theory than a generally related "grab-bag."

Question 10

Social Cognitive Theory has gone through several evolutions, yet all of the components ever included in the theory are still "hanging around."