Research Paper On Albert Bandura

Psychologist Albert Bandura was born in Mundane ,which is in northern Alberta, Canada, on December 4, 1925. His father and mother were immigrants from Poland and Ukraine, though his family was not financially stable Bandura’s parents value education above all else. Bandura went to the only elementary and high school in town, when Bandura graduated form high school his parents presented him with two options, one he can stay in Mundane or two he can pursue a high education. He chose the second option and went the University of British Columbia. Bandura was pursuing a major in the biological sciences, but changed his major to psychology when he took the class “Intro to Psychology”, Bandura became intrigued …show more content…
McLeod states that even though Bandura did agree “with the behaviorist learning theory” (line one, paragraph one), he had two ideas that were also important. One that “mediating processes occur between stimuli & responses”(line two, paragraph one),and two that, “behavior is learned from the environment through the process of observational learning” (line three, paragraph one). McLeod uses children as his example to explain Observational Learning by steps. Children look up to others as role models; in step one children will choose people that they can identify most with, which will usually be someone of the same sex. Step two people who are around the child will respond to the child’s behavior in a positive or negative way through reinforcement or punishment, an example could be a little boy playing nicely with his sibling, the adult may say “what a good little boy.” The child’s behavior is reinforced. In step three that child will observe the consequences of their model to see if they should imitate their behavior, like a little sister with a big sister. McLeod then goes on to explain the Meditating Process, he states that Bandura proposed that their were four Meditating Processes Attention, Retention, Reproduction and Motivation and that each process is what help the observer decided if the want to imitate the model or not. Step one would be attention in observational learning, step two would be retention and reproduction and motivation would be step three. McLeod ends his article by stating that even though people have been through violent events that does not mean they should reproduce this behavior, and this is the reason why Bandura changed his Social Learning Theory to the Social Cognitive Theory in