Albert Bandura

Name – Albert Bandura (1925- )
Summary – Albert Bandura was born December 4, 1925, in the small town of Mundare in Northern Alberta. Canada. He received his bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University of British Columbia in 1949. At the University of Iowa he received his PhD in 1952. It was there that he became under the influence of the behaviorist tradition and learning theory. He believes in observational or vicarious learning. He believes that you can alter behavior if you have rewards. Behavior play is also important in roles of learning. He married a woman named Virginia Varns from Iowa and then moved to Wichita, Kansas. In 1953 he started teaching at Stanford University. He collaborated with a man named Richard Walters and wrote a book “Adolescent Aggression,” in 1959. Albert Bandura continues to work at Stanford to this day ( Boeree, 1998).
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Social cognitive theory modeling – social and cognitive factors, as well as behavior, play impor...