ReCAPP: Professional Credits: Social Learning Theory Quiz

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Theories and Approaches:
Social Learning Theory

Continuing Education
Self-Study Quiz
for CHES and
CFLE Contact Hours

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Self-Study Quiz

Social Learning Theory (SLT) is:
1. a very specific theory explaining human behavior.
2. a category of learning theories grounded in the Health Belief Model framework.
3. grounded in the belief that human behavior is determined by a three-way relationship between cognitive factors, environmental determinants, and behavior.
4. All of the above.

SLT is a valuable and effective tool for health educators who:
1. are committed to a primarily cognitive approach to health education.
2. want to assist their students in gaining new health supporting skills.
3. believe changing social norms is the central goal of their health education programs.
4. None of the above.

The six key concepts of SLT include:
1. expectations, behavioral capabilities, and determinants.
2. expectations, observational learning, and reasoned actions.
3. self-efficacy, reciprocal determinism, and reinforcement.
4. self-efficacy, observational capabilities, and expectations.

"The individual's behavior changes as a result of some interaction between the individual and their environment." This statement best describes which SLT concept?
1. reinforcement.
2. reciprocal determinism.
3. observational learning.
4. behavioral capability.

Health educators can apply the concept of "observational learning" in their work with students by:
1. having youth observe the desired new skill being modeled.
2. having youth observe the destructive social norm being modeled.
3. observing youth in their natural environments.
4. observing youth and assessing their baseline behavioral capabilities.

In the 1960s, Albert Bandura began contributing to the development of the SLT by showing that:
1. animals naturally imitate the behavior of children.
2. children naturally imitate the behavior of animals.
3. children naturally imitate the behavior of other children.
4. all human imitation is based on receiving a direct reward for the new behavior.

SLT is a good fit for prevention-based sexuality programs because:
1. sexual behavior is influenced by personal knowledge, skills, attitudes, interpersonal relationships, and environmental influences.
2. modeling positive and healthy sexuality-related behavior to youth is extremely important because youth receive few positive models for healthy sexual behavior.
3. it provides youth with behavioral skills practice.
4. All of the above.

The Social Inoculation Theory:
1. is probably the most common and well-accepted of the social learning theories.
2. "immunizes' learners by having them practice how to resist risky behaviors.
3. is an umbrella for a host of more specific learning theories.
4. is one of several SLTs that focuses on changing social norms as a way to change the individual.

The curriculum Reducing the Risk (RTR) integrates which of the following key SLT concepts into its lessons?
1. observational learning, behavioral capabilities, and self-efficacy.
2. observational learning, expectations, behavioral capabilities, and self-efficacy.
3. observational learning, expectations, behavioral capabilities, self-efficacy, and reciprocal determinism.
4. observational learning, expectations, behavioral capabilities, self-efficacy, reciprocal determinism, and reinforcement.

Maintaining a low student to educator ratio is desirable when applying SLT in the classroom in order to:
1. allow educators to correctly apply the observational learning concept which is difficult to do with large groups.
2. accommodate effective student skills practice.
3. support educators in believing in the efficacy of what they are teaching.
4. allow time for educators to obtain school and parental permission slips for potentially controversial skill-building sessions.

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