The document discusses several cognitive models of career choice: - Social cognitive career theory explains how academic/career interests develop, educational/career choices are made, and academic/career success is obtained. Key concepts are self-efficacy, outcome expectations, and personal goals. - Cognitive information processing theory focuses on self-knowledge, occupational knowledge, and decision-making skills. It identifies five information processing skills. - Values-based theory stresses the importance of personal values in career counseling and choices, seeing values as cognitive structures and affective bases for evaluation and goal-directed behavior. Teachers should do values clarification activities and projects showing values application.

1. Cognitive
Models
of
Career
Choice
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2. Social Cognitive
Career Theory
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3. SCCT
Thinking processes and beliefs
control and direct a person’s
activities rather than focusing on
the behaviors themselves.
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4. SCCT aimed at explaining
three interrelated aspects of
career development:
• how basic academic and career
interests develop
• how educational and career
choices are made
• how academic and career success
is obtained.
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5. concepts that affect the career
decision- making process
1. Self –Efficacy
the ­­beliefs people have
about their ability to
successfully complete the
steps required for a give
task
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6. 2. Outcome Expectations
the beliefs related to the
consequences of performing a
specific behavior
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7. 3. Personal Goals
-plays a big role in decisions
and actions to be taken
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8. Theory into Practice
• Give students with activities that:
• develop their sense of self-efficacy
from personal performance,
learning by example, social
interactions, and how they feel in a
situation
• increase these students’ options in
career choices
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9. Cognitive
information
processing
(CIP) theory
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10. Three Domains
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11. Three Basic Career Information
Processing Principles:
1. Self-knowledge is based on perception
rather than fact, and is influenced by past
experience and present feelings
2. Knowledge about occupational options is
based on facts that can be verified
3. In today’s fast-paced society, decisions will
need to be re-made and adjusted many
times over
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12. 5 information- processing
skills used
• C—communication
Awareness of gap between idea
and current situation.
• A—analysis
Information gathered for
research.
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13. S—synthesis
Bring together accumulated
information about self and
occupations.
• V—valuing
Using best judgment to set
priorities on remaining options to
choose occup./major.
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14. E—execution
– Taking action and solving the
career
problem identified in communication
stage
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15. Things to consider in
applying CIP
• Understanding a person’s
perceptions and how these
perceptions are influenced
• Providing access to current labor
market information
• Teaching decision-making skills
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16. Values-Based
Theory
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17. • Cace and Brown's values-
based career theory
stresses the importance of
values in career counseling
and occupational choice
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18. • Values are considered as
cognitive structures that
are the basis for self-
evaluation and one's
evaluation of others
• It also viewed as having an
affective aspect.
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19. Values are also considered
as:
• more fundamental traits than
interests
• basis of goal-directed behavior
• are primary consideration in
career counseling
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20. For Teachers:
• Values clarification activities
• Outputs/projects that show
application of values
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