Symbolizing, for example, could explain a child learning the alphabet by symbolizing the letters for words. We, as humans, constantly symbolize as a way of retaining and memorizing information.
Self-regulatory explains one’s ability to evaluate and motivate one’s own self. For example, a college student may strive to achieve good grades, without a parent or professor’s persuasion.
Self-reflective means evaluating one’s own decisions to make sure that one’s thinking is correct. For example, a person may become self-reflective during or after making a large purchase.
Vicarious capacity is the ability to learn without direct experience. This is especially important to the media in today’s world, while a war is currently being fought.
A positive example of this would be watching primetime news as to learn what’s going on in the current world.
The flipside to this would be being exposed to images you might not otherwise have wanted to see (e.g. a terror hostage’s beheading; a plane flying into the World Trade Center).
“In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life.” -Albert Bandura
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