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Albert Bandura

Introduction

Introduction

Krystal Lamphier

PSY 150-502

I have neither given nor received help on this Project. I am in compliance with the Cleveland Community College Academic Honesty Policy. The work is my own and proper documentation was completed, if appropriate.

Albert Bandura

Father of the social cognitive theory: The idea that humans learn behaviors by observing others external actions. He was interested in why human behaviors formed mostly aggression. He was most famous for the bobo experiment that tested his theory on learned observational aggression (cognitive theory.)

Biographical Information

Birth/death: December 4th, 1925- present

Albert Bandura was born to parents of European decent. His father was from Poland, and his mother from Ukraine later moving to Canada. He was the only boy out of six siblings in his family and was later married in 1952 to Virginia Varns. He had two daughters; Carol Cowley and Mary Bandura.

Bandura was always interested in human behavior and the aggression they showed. He was more specifically interested in "aggression in boys who came from intact middle-class families), children’s abilities to self-regulate and self-reflect, and of course self-efficacy"

-University of Alberta, University (2005)

After high school, Albert Bandura went to University of British Columbia wit the intentions of becoming a great psychologist. He graduated in 1949, and after his graduation he worked at the University of Iowa, where he also received a master’s degree in psychology and a doctorate in clinical psychology

Biographical Information

Major Contributions

Major contributions

Cause of area of study

Cause for area of study

Experiments

Albert Bandura defined aggression as "intentional

causal behavior that results in injury to a person or the destruction of property"

Experiments

Interesting facts

Bandura received many awards for his groundbreaking work, awards including; the American Psychological Association (APA) Award for Outstanding Lifetime Contribution to Psychology in 2004, he also received the American Psychological Foundation’s Gold Medal Award and In 2016 he received the National Medal of Science.

interesting facts

Bandura only had two teachers who taught all his classes. His Math class only had a single textbook for everyone.

In A 2002 survey Bandura was ranked fourth most-frequently cited psychologist due to his bobo doll experiment and other interesting studies.

Conclusions

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