I picked up a book on procrastination at the library today. I hope I can get around to reading it sometime...
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I have about 7 or 8 email accounts. Mostly because most free email accounts give you about 2 MB of space[hotmail]. I try to differentiate them accordingly.. One account for school, one for personal correspondence, one for junkmail when you sign up for things online.. And I like to keep all the important emails. Just in case. You never know.
Like today.. I've been wanting to get in touch with an old buddy old pal. But I didn't know how. And I kept trying to think.. what email did I use when I used to email this person..? And it hit me: chek mail.
This is an old account I signed up for wayyy back. The site's been transferred to a new company [synacor] and I don't think new people can even sign up for chekmail. But they just leave the email be.. and there's pretty much no support or updates for it...
Which means... massive and massive amounts of SPAM.
That's why I don't check that account too often anymore. Literally, the short time I've monitored, going through my old emails at this account.. I get an average of 5 SPAM letters a minute.
But this one caught my eye... Why would a SPAMmail for refinancing loans or mortgages include this: >>
"Social cognitive theory views the three major alternative approaches to explaining personality and behavior-psychodynamic theories, trait theories, and radical behaviorism-as unable to account satisfactorily of the complexity and plasticity of human behavior. Psychodynamic theories are difficult to test empirically, cannot account adequately for the tremendous situational variation in individual behavior, are deficient in predicting future behavior, and have not led to the development of efficient and effective methods for changing psychosocial functioning. Trait theories do not have good predictive utility and do not sufficiently consider the documented impact of situational influences. Radical behaviorism makes assumptions about behavior that have been disputed by empirical findings. For example, Research has demonstrated that environmental events (antecedents and consequences) do not control behavior automatically, that anticipated consequences predict behavior better than actual consequences, that complex patterns of behavior can be learned through observation alone in the absence of reinforcement, and that operant explanations alone cannot account for the complexity of human learning and behavior. Because social cognitive theory assumes that people process and use information in symbolic form, evaluate their own thoughts and behaviors, predict and anticipate events and consequences, set goals and strive toward them, and regulate their own behavior. It surpasses the previously mentioned approaches in its ability to account for situational influences and differences, to explain the effects of belief and expectancies, to predict behavior accurately, and to provide models and strategies for effective behavior change.
2. SELF - EFFICACY THEORY
Self-efficacy theory maintains that all processes of psychological and behavioral change operate through the alteration of the individual��s sense of personal mastery or self-efficacy. Self-efficacy was originally defined as a rather
specific type of expectancy concerned with one��s beliefs in one��s ability to perform a specific behavior or set of behaviors required to produce an outcome (Bandura, 1977). The definition of self-efficacy has been expanded, however, to refer to ��people��s beliefs about their capabilities to exercise control over events that affect their lives�� (Bandura, 1989) and their ��beliefs in their capabilities to mobilize the motivation, cognitive resources, and courses of action needed to exercise control over task demands.�� (Bandura, 1990 P316).
A. GENERALITY AND SPECIFICITY OF SELF - EFFICACY BELIEFS
Self-efficacy is conceptualized and measured not as a personality trait, but, instead, is defined and measured in the context of relatively specific behaviors in specific situations or contexts. However, the level of specificity at which self-efficacy is measured will be determined by the nature of the task and situation at hand, and by the nature of the task and situation to which one wishes to generalize, or in which one wishes to predict (Bandura, 1992)."
My question to you is:
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