Albert Bandura's Social-Cognitive Theory

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At first he just moved the car forward and backward, then all of a sudden the car’s two wheels lifted up from the table, and the car landed on the fifth wheel that was located on the trunk of the car and began spinning. Anthony smiled wide and continued holding the certain controls to make it rotate. After about a couple minutes of it rotating, he stopped the car. He then controlled the car to move it forward and it fell onto the floor where the dog heard the noise and came running towards it. Instead of Anthony picking the car up before the dog’s attempt to bite it, he let the dog bark at it and began moving the car around the room.
Anthony began belly-laughing while the dog was barking and trying to chew the car and he continued to move
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WHAT STAGE OF DEVELOPOMENT IS THE CHILD AT? WHAT LEADS YOU TO THAT CONCLUSION?
Bandura’s Social-Cognitive Theory also describes that Anthony learned to locate his toys through a model. The most likely model was his mother who demonstrated that his toys were in a certain closet and that they will be there until he wants to play with them. It also can be interpreted, that his knowledge of the location of the toys can be described through his observation of his sibling placing her toys in the same closet and keeping them there thus receiving praise from the parental unit.
Skinner’s Operant Conditioning- Also, the action of putting his toys away where they were found is a reference that through reinforcement from the parental unit, he learned that once he put his toys away once he was finished. It could also be thought that through punishment from the parental unit that he will not leave his toys out after he finishes
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DOES IT PROMOTE EYE TRACKING, LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT, SKILL DEVELOPMENT, ETC? The toy generally would promote fine motor skills. Anthony needed to have the ability to grasp the small controls on the remote and hold them and the controller while directing the car’s movement. Although his ability to track has become fairly well developed, it did promote his ability to watch the car while controlling it. Another skill that toy promoted was gross motor skills. He needed the ability to chase the car while he was playing with the car. If he was not able to run or walk or hold the controller, he would not have been able to play with the

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