#4 THE SELF AS PROACTIVE AND AGENTIC

Colegio De Montalban

Presented by:
Castillo, Louie Jay & De Guzman Aeron

Presented to:
Danny Canon

The capacity to exercise control over the nature and quality of one's life is the essence of
humanness. Human agency is characterized by a number of core features that operate through
phenomenal and functional consciousness. These include the temporal extension of agency
through intentionality and forethought, self-regulation by self-reactive influence, and self-
reflectiveness about one's capabilities, quality of functioning, and the meaning and purpose of
one's life pursuits.

The self as proactive and agentic by Albert Bandura, Albert Bandura is an influential social
cognitive psychologist who is perhaps best known for his social learning theory, the concept of
self-efficacy, and his famous Bobo doll experiments. He is a Professor Emeritus at Stanford
University and is widely regarded as one of the greatest living psychologists. According to Albert
Bandura, agency are perceived as proactive agents of experiences. Agency is the endowments,
belief systems, self-regulatory capabilities, and distributed structures and functions through
which personal influence is exercised, rather than reside as a discrete entity. The main features
of human agency are the following: intentionally, forethought, self – reactiveness and self –
reflectiveness. The purpose of this idea was through us who plays a big role in our self
development, adaptation and self renewal. The following are the four agentic perspective:

 Intentionally- Enables us to behave with purpose.

 Forethought- Allows us to anticipate outcomes.
 Self-reactiveness- We can be motivated to regulate our actions.
 Self-reflectiveness- We can reflect our thoughts and behaviors and make needed
modification.

Aside from this, Bandura also emphasizes the importance of social learning, or learning through
observation. The following are four steps in observational learning and modeling process, first is
the attention, in order for you to learn you need to pay attention, second is retention, it is the
ability to store information, third is motor reproduction which where you perform what you
observe and last is the motivation, in order for observational learning to be successful, you have
to be motivated to imitate the behavior that has been modeled.

We humans plan things intentionally or we do things intentionally, with doing this we wait for
possible outcomes. We make our plans, actions and decision with the basis of our intention in
life. We as humans are interested in different things, we make our self interested in the things
we do therefore acting with our intentions. Forethought, on the other hand enables us to
anticipate the consequences of the things we do. We expect different expectations therefore we
likely think better before we do or make decisions in the future. Self reactiveness involves
making choices. We make different choices and we actually make choices after thinking about
the consequences. Self reflectiveness gives us the ability to reflect on our decisions, choices
and consequences.

Albert bandura’s theories emphasized that the importance of social learning, or learning is
through observation and also the role of conscious thoughts including self–efficacy or our own
beliefs in our abilities. As bow say in the film kung fu panda, “When you believe in yourself,
everything is possible”. It is all likewise in the idea of Albert Bandura. Believing in yourself
means having faith in your own capabilities. It means believing that you can do something that it
is within your ability. In addition that you can overcome self-doubt and have the confidence to
take action and get things done.

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