He was so full of energy and ideas, and he talked to us for another 30 minutes before saying good night. Bandura was born on December 4, , in the immigrant farming community of Mundare in Alberta, Canada. Neither parent spoke English or had a formal education, yet they instilled the love of learning in Albert, the youngest of seven children.
In college he took an introductory psychology class simply because the morning class fit his schedule. They married in Although few people had a window into his private life, family was important to Bandura.
Not only was Professor Bandura a storied researcher and teacher, he was a mentor and friend whose optimism knew no bounds. In accordance with his wishes, no formal memorial service is being planned. Working at the intersection of hardware and software engineering, researchers are developing new techniques for improving 3D displays for virtual and augmented reality technologies.
Stanford News is a publication of Stanford University Communications. Stanford , California Skip to content. Menu Search form Search term. And he treasured his graduate students who treasured him equally as much. One of the things he enjoyed most was to have a get-together with former graduate students. He kept track of them and what they did as though they were his children, and I think he looked on them that way.
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It sparked my interest and I found my career. He earned his degree from the University of British Columbia in after just three years of study and then went on to graduate school at the University of Iowa. The school had been home to Kenneth Spence, who collaborated with his mentor Clark Hull at Yale University, and other psychologists including Kurt Lewin. While the program took an interest in social learning theory, Bandura felt that it was too focused on behaviorist explanations.
Bandura earned his MA degree in and his Ph. After earning his Ph. He began working at Stanford in and has continued to work at the university to this day. It was during his studies on adolescent aggression that Bandura became increasing interested in vicarious learning, modeling, and imitation. Albert Bandura's social learning theory stressed the importance of observational learning, imitation, and modeling.
His theory integrated a continuous interaction between behaviors, cognitions, and the environment. Bandura's most famous experiment was the Bobo doll study. In the experiment, he made a film in which an adult model was shown beating up a Bobo doll and shouting aggressive words. The film was then shown to a group of children. Afterward, the children were allowed to play in a room that held a Bobo doll. Those who had seen the film with the violent model were more likely to beat the doll, imitating the actions and words of the adult in the film clip.
The children received no encouragement or incentives to beat up the doll; they were simply imitating the behavior they had observed. Bandura termed this phenomenon observational learning and characterized the elements of effective observational learning as attention, retention, reciprocation and motivation. Bandura's work emphasizes the importance of social influences, but also a belief in personal control. Even in his earliest work, Bandura argued that reducing behavior to a stimulus-response cycle was too simplistic.
While his work used behavioral terminology such as 'conditioning' and 'reinforcement,' Bandura explained, " I conceptualized these phenomena as operating through cognitive processes. Bandura has been a prolific author of books and journal articles over the last 60 years and is the most widely cited living psychologist. Some of Bandura's best-known books and journal articles have become classics within psychology and continue to be widely cited today.
His first professional publication was a paper titled "'Primary' and 'Secondary' Suggestibility" that appeared in the Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology. His book Social Learning Theory presented the basics of his theory of how people learn through observation and modeling. His article entitled "Self-Efficacy: Toward a Unifying Theory of Behavioral Change" was published in Psychological Review and introduced his concept of self-efficacy.
The article also became an instant classic in psychology. His theories have had a tremendous impact on personality psychology , cognitive psychology , education, and psychotherapy. In , Bandura was elected president of the American Psychological Association. The APA awarded him for his distinguished scientific contributions in and again in for his outstanding lifetime contributions to psychology.
Today, Bandura is often identified as the greatest living psychology as well as one of the most influential psychologists of all time.
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