B.F Skinner and Albert Bandura

Bobo doll

Skinner box

Contributions

Bandura demonstrated that children learn and imitate behaviors they have observed in other people. The children in Bandura’s studies observed an adult acting violently toward a Bobo doll. When the children were later allowed to play in a room with the Bobo doll, they began to imitate the aggressive actions they had previously observed.

Skinner studied operant

conditioning by putting a hungry rat in a box.

Skinner demonstrated how reinforcement of behaviors strengthens a response.

As of today one can say that both theories have contributed tremendously in understanding the learning process of a person. Operant conditioning has help in modifying and shaping a behavior in different setting through reward and punishments

Bandura social cognitive theory, has influenced education, medicine, media, public health and many other settings worldwide, and has help undertand the learning process from both intrnal and external factors.

The consequence of receiving the food lead the rat keep on pressing the lever. If the rat did not press the lever negative reinforcement will came in, received unpleasant electric current, again to reinforce the desire behavior.

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Learning process

Learning process

B.F Skinner argued that in ordered for learning to occur it needs to be an association between a behavior and the consequence of that behavior.

According to Bandura people learn through observing others. He called this observational learning or modeling. Later amplified his social theory with cognition, he started to believe that there was more then just external stimulus that manage people's behavior. There is also thinking involve.

It will only occur is there is a stimulus reinforcing it or punishing it

Thus Bandura’s theory emphasizes intrinsic motivators

Skinner approach relies more

heavily on extrinsic motivators!

Modeling Process

is observing an immitating a behavior

Attention

Retention

Reproduction

Motivation

Positive and negative reinforcement along with positive and negative punishment are the biggest part of a child's development

Bandura’s theory also emphasizes "self-regulation... that individuals observe their environment, evaluate their actions based on personal or societal standards, and then self-reward or self- punish..."

(Luechtefeld, 2007).

Operant conditioning

Social cognitive theory

B.F. Skinner was a behaviorist and the most influential psychologist of the 20th century. He is known as the father of Operant conditioning; a method of learning that is base on Thorndike’s law of effect.

Albert Bandura a canadian Psychologist came up with theory known as Social cognitive theory, which is the most influential theory of learning and development.

Operant conditioning is a active method of learning in which behavior is strengthened if followed by a reinforcer or diminished if followed by a punisher

SCT states that people learn from one another through observation, imitation, and modeling

B.F Skinner vs. Albert Bandura

Learning process