PSYC 3300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Walter Mischel, Albert Bandura, Social Learning Theory

• School: University of Windsor
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3300
• Professor: Ken Cramer

Document Summary

Textbook chapter 8: albert bandura and walter mischel. Bandura: many of the men with whom he worked had fled to alaska to escape creditors, alimony, and probation offers. Working with such characters instilled in bandura a keen appreciation for the psychopathology of everyday life: bandura began working on the familial causes of aggression with his first graduate student, It was this ^ research that he became aware of the importance of modelling and observational learning for personality development: bandura"s books: 1st book was adolescent aggression. Aggression: a social learning analysis, social learning theory, social foundations of. Thought and action: a social cognitive theory, self-efficacy in changing societies, self- Interests in personality theory and assessment were furthered by discussions with gordon. Allport: became a colleague of bandura, continues to pursue his life-long standing interests in delayed gratification, self-control, and the cognitive processes. Found that people are better predictors of their own behaviour than best personality tests available.