The psychoanalytic perspective deals with personality and behavior caused by unconscious motives and conflicts. ... , redirecting your feelings, and the transformation of unacceptable impulses into socially valued motivations. ... The social-cognitive perspective deals with principles of learning, thinking, and social influence. ... I also found it interesting how psychologists assess behavior in situations and what they can tell from that. I learned that action predicts behavior better than personality tests do. ...

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Following the questionnaire subjects took part in a brief motivational interview which addressed the four key aspects of self efficacy (Mastery Experience, Social Modelling, Social Persuading and psychological responses) that was then applied to the subjects' future aims. ... Component Mean Score Std.Deviation Social Pressure (SP) 14.00 5.242 Emotional Relief (ER) 29.35 6.090 Opportunistic Drinking (OD) 32.95 2.699 Fig. 1. ... Social Pressure was found to be the key component with lower levels of self efficacy in comparison to the other two, suggesting the student population have simila...

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At the time, causing problems whilst out in social settings, to the point where G's behaviour would affect the entire outing and result in the family having to leave that environment and go home. ... In social learning theory Albert Bandura (1977) states behavior is learned from the environment through the process of observational learning.   ... The six observations have recorded G's behavior and determined whether or not it has had an effect on her development; particularly her social development and her ability to interact with her peers and adults outside of her home environment...

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