Proposed by Bandura
- Setting goals and standards for self
- Observing or monitoring (keeping track of) our own behaviour to see how well we meet these standards.
- Rewarding or punishing self according to how well we meet our own standards (our individual goals and standards determine how we self-reinforce and regulate our behaviour)
- We have individual patterns of reinforcement that depend on how well we meet our own standards and our intrinsic needs
- Using self-imposed stimulus control to regulate that behaviour (seeking out situations that we believe will make it more likely that we show a behaviour we want to show, avoiding situations we believe will prompt behaviours we do not want to show)
- Self-regulatory self-efficacy. Some individuals have more confidence that they can self-regulate in general, or self-regulate in specific life realms, than other individuals.