PSY 3121 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Albert Bandura, Bandura, Psychopathology
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Questioned his total disregard of mental processes. Proposed instead a social learning or socio behavioural approach. This is the third stage of the development of the behaviourist school of thought. Parents were immigrants from poland with little formal education. After high school, worked with construction crews on highways. Attended university of british columbia and discovered psychology. Earned his phd at the university of iowa and would hold a career at stanford u. Social cognitive theory was less extreme than skinner"s because it did take into account some mental processes. His research focus was to observe the behaviour of human subjects in interaction. He did not use introspection and he emphasized the use of rewards in modifying behaviour. He used social theory because few people live in social isolation. He stressed the influence of external reinforcement schedules of thought processes. Reactions to stimuli are self activated by the person.
