Applying Albert Bandura's Social Learning Theory

Albert Bandura was born on December 4th, 1925. His early education was composed of one small school with only two teachers. Soon after enrolling at the University of British Columbia he became interested in psychology. This interest that formed in psychology was actually an accident. He was working at night and commuting to school with a group of people, he soon found himself arriving at school much earlier than what his courses started. After graduating in three years he went on to graduate school at the University of Iowa. For other psychologists such as, Clark Hull, Kenneth Spence, and Kurt Lewin this school had been their home. The program did not take an interest in social learning theory, but Bandura just felt that it was too focused on behaviorist explanations. …show more content…
degree in 1951 and in 1952 he earned his Ph.D.. He was offered a position at Stanford and took it. Bandura was studying adolescent aggression and soon became interested in vicarious learning, modeling, and imitation. Albert Bandura had a social learning theory which stressed the importance of observational learning theory which stressed the importance of observational learning, also known as modeling and imitation. Bandura once said, "Learning would be exceedingly laborious, not to mention hazardous if people had to rely solely on the effects of their own actions to inform them what to do. Bandura said this in 1977. His theory combines a continual interaction between behaviors, apprehension, and also the