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The theory has often been called a bridge between behaviorist and cognitive learning

theories because it encompasses attention, memory, and motivation. People learn through

observing others behavior, attitudes, and outcomes of those behaviors. Most human behavior is

learned observationally through modeling: from observing others, one forms an idea of how new

behaviors are performed, and later on occasions this coded information serves as a guide for

action. Social learning theory explains human behavior in terms of continuous reciprocal

interaction between cognitive, behavioral, and environmental influences. Bandura believed in

reciprocal determinism, that is, the world and a persons behavior cause each other, while

behaviorism essentially states that ones environment causes ones behavior, Bandura, who was

studying adolescent aggression, found this too simplistic, and so in addition he suggested that

behavior causes environment as well. Later, Bandura soon considered personality as an

interaction between three components: the environment, behavior, and ones psychological

processes (ones ability to entertain images in minds and language. The component processes

underlying observational learning are: (1) Attention, including modeled events

(distinctiveness, affective valence, complexity, prevalence, functional value) and observer

characteristics (sensory capacities, arousal level, perceptual set, past reinforcement), (2)

Retention, including symbolic coding, cognitive organization, symbolic rehearsal, motor

rehearsal), (3) Motor Reproduction, including physical capabilities, self-observation of

reproduction, accuracy of feedback, and (4) Motivation, including external, vicarious and

self reinforcement. In relation, this theory is linked to our study since it deals with how

people learn from their environment using their observation besides we want to know the

level of awareness of the selected nursing students regarding the 11 key Core Competencies

that was released by the Commission on Higher Education. The Core Competencies have

been developed to around a set of assumptions to serve as a framework and guiding

principles for the design of the competency-based education and practice model.

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The science of nursing is a discrete body of knowledge that incorporates: knowledge of

relationships among nurses, patients and their environments within the context of health; nursing

concepts and theories derived from the basic sciences, humanities and other disciplines.