Respond to the following statement. Agree or Disagree and discuss Why:

Bandura’s social cognitive theory is based on what he called “Triadic Reciprocal Causation,” the relationship between behavior; internal personal factors (in the form of cognitive, affective, and biological events); and the external environment (Bandura, 1997). Perceived self-efficacy embodies these interacting determinants and is defined as the confidence one has in their capability to accomplish a specific task (Bandura, 1997). Bandura’s social cognitive theory provides the foundation for the many ways in which efficacy beliefs operate in concert with socio-cognitive determinants that govern human adaptation and change (Bandura, 1997).

Information processing theorists, according to Mayer (1996), as cited in Schunk (2016), “contend that people select and attend to features of the environment, transform and rehearse information, relate new information to previously acquired knowledge, and organize knowledge to make it meaningful” (Schunk, (2016), p. 165). Knowledge can be estimated from the ability of the individual to process information. If an individual is capable of handling information quickly, then the person can be considered a quick-learner, and if the person can process information slowly, then the individual can be termed as the slow learner.

Bandura, A. (1997). Self-efficacy: The exercise of control. New York, NY: W. H. Freeman.

Schunk, D. H. (2016). Learning theories: An educational perspective (7th ed.). Boston, MA: Pearson Education.