Compare And Contrast Bandura And Bf Skinner

B.F. Skinner and Albert Bandura are both behaviorist psychologists of personality. According to Skinner, he rejects many of the core concepts of personality. He believes that personality is a concept of mentality. Skinner is interested in all behavior that is observable, instead of personality theories or personality structures. His operant conditioning provides a learning approach to personality; as well as shaping and reinforcement. According to Bandura, behavior is learned from the environment through vicarious learning and from what is observed. Observational learning involves four processes: attention process (where an individual pays attention to the model), retention process (where an individual remembers the model to repeat it), …show more content…
In the beginning of the film, he is seen watching people play chess in the park. When he was picked up from school, he asked his mother if they could go to the park to watch the men play chess. At first, his mother was not fond of being in the area because a lot of the men were dealing drugs, smoking, and drinking. The second time his mother brought him to the park, she asked and paid a man to allow Josh to play one round of chess with him. Although Josh lost the game, he was fairly happy that he had the opportunity to play. Bandura’s four processes of observational learning were shown in the film. The first process: attention process was at the park where Josh paid attention to the chess players. The retention process was when he played chess for the first time against the man in the park; he had already memorized the way the game functioned. The production process was when Josh practiced the behavior by playing his father, the man at the Chess Club, and the children at the tournaments he attended. The motivational process was when Josh continued to enter the tournaments and win on his own