PSY 20673 Chapter Notes - Chapter 17: Albert Bandura, Social Cognitive Theory, Triadic Pyramid
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Bandura: social cognitive theory: overview of bandura"s social cognitive theory. Bandura"s social cognitive theory takes an agentic perspective, meaning that humans have some limited ability to control their lives. Albert bandura was born in canada in 1925, but he has spent his entire professional life in the united states. He completed a phd in clinical psychology at the university of iowa in 1951 and since then has worked almost entirely at stanford university, where he continues to be an active researcher and speaker. Bandura takes a broad view of learning, believing that people learn through observing others and by attending to the consequences of their own actions. Although he believes that reinforcement aids learning, he contends that people can learn in the absence of reinforcement and even of a response: observational learning. The heart of observational learning is modeling, which is more than simple imitation, because it involves adding and subtracting from observed behavior.
