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Learning about Albert Bandura's background.

Bandura's 5 Social Learning Theories

Main Principles of the Social Learning Theories

Understanding the theories

Learning the core concepts

Relating Bandura's theories to real-world examples

Q and A

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Albert Bandura was born on December 4th, 1925, and passed July 26th, 2021.

Bandura's early education consisted of one small school with only two high school teachers. Since he had limited access to educational resources," the students had to take charge of their education." These early experiences may have contributed to his later emphasis on the importance of personal agency.

Bandura earned his MA degree in 1951. He loved psychology from the beginning of his schooling, so much so that he continued his education and earned a PhD in clinical psychology in 1952.

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How Understanding These Theories Helps Future Teachers

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How Understanding These Theories Helps Future Teachers

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By understanding Social Learning Theory and the other learning theories, future teachers will:

Realize the importance of their behavior as role models in the classroom.

Use modeling, demonstration, and peer learning to enhance student engagement and retention.

Encourage collaborative learning environments where students can learn from each other.

Effectively integrate technology, such as videos and online content, to provide diverse models for observational learning.

Use reinforcement and motivation to encourage positive behaviors and effective learning outcomes.

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Teacher as a Role Model: Teachers serve as role models in the classroom. For example, if a teacher consistently demonstrates respectful communication and patience, students are likely to copy those behaviors.

Peer Learning: In group projects or collaborative work, students observe how their peers solve problems or engage in discussions and may mimic successful strategies.

Video Learning: Teachers can use videos of experts or other students demonstrating skills (e.g., solving math problems, conducting experiments) as models for students to observe and replicate.

Behavioral Expectations: Teachers can use Social Learning Theory for classroom management by modeling positive behavior. For example, by showing students how to calmly raise their hands and wait for their turn, students learn appropriate classroom behavior by observing and imitating the teacher.

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1. Behaviorism: Focuses on observable behaviors and the role of reinforcement and punishment in shaping them. Teachers use rewards or consequences to manage behavior and reinforce learning.

2. Cognitivism: Emphasizes the mental processes involved in learning, such as memory and problem-solving. Teachers help students connect new information with existing knowledge and develop cognitive skills.

3. Constructivism: Learners actively build knowledge through experiences. Teachers facilitate learning by creating activities where students can explore, collaborate, and draw their own conclusions.

4. Humanism: Focuses on personal growth and self-actualization. Teachers create a supportive, student-centered environment that fosters emotional well-being and motivation.

5. Connectivism: A modern theory that highlights learning in the digital age. Teachers encourage students to use technology and digital networks to access and share knowledge.

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Main Principles of the Social Learning Theory

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Main Principles of the Social Learning Theory

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1. Observational Learning: Individuals can learn new behaviors by watching others (models) without directly experiencing reinforcement or punishment themselves.

2. Attention: The learner must pay attention to the model’s behavior. If the model is engaging or holds authority, attention is likely to increase.

3. Retention: After observing the behavior, the learner must be able to remember it.

4. Reproduction: The learner must be capable of reproducing the observed behavior.

5. Motivation: There must be a reason for the learner to imitate the behavior, whether it's expecting a reward or seeing the model benefit from the behavior (vicarious reinforcement).

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social learning between teacher and student

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Learning through observation

Children learn and imitate behaviors learned through other people

Not always by watching people but by verbal learning also

Real world application

Social learning theory can be used to see how aggression and violence may be transmitted through observational learning

But also be used to teach positive behaviors, and how positive role models can be used to encourage positive behavior

Mental states are important to learning

One's own mental state and motivation play an important role in determining whether a behavior is learned or not

This is described intrinsic reinforcement as a form of internal rewards, such as pride, satisfaction, and a sense of accomplishment.

Intrinsic reinforcement- motivation to engage in a behavior because of the inherent satisfaction of the activity rather than the desire for a reward or specific outcome

Internal thoughts and cognitions helps connect learning theories to cognitive developmental theories

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-There are 5 Learning Theories!

-Mental States are important for learning!

-Observational learning is a principle of the social learning theory!

-Albert Bandura came up with the social Learning Theory!

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How many learning theories are there?

A. 2

B. 3

C.4

D.5

Are mental states important for learning?

A. Yes

B. No

Is observational learning a principle of the social learning theory?

A. Yes

B. No

Who came up with the social learning theory?

A. Albert Bandura

B. Taylor Swift

C. Albert Einstein

D. Phineas and Ferb

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Albert Bandura is an influential social cognitive psychologist who is perhaps best-known for his social learning theory, the concept of self-efficacy, and his famous Bobo doll experiments. He is a Professor Emeritus at Stanford University and is widely regarded as one of the greatest living psychologists.

One 2002 survey ranked him as the fourth most influential psychologist of the twentieth century, behind only B.F. Skinner, Sigmund Freud, and Jean Piaget.

Best Known For

Albert Bandura was born on December 4, 1925, in a small Canadian town located approximately 50 miles from Edmonton. The last of six children, Bandura's early education consisted of one small school with only two teachers. According to Bandura, because of this limited access to educational resources, "The students had to take charge of their own education."

He realized that while "the content of most textbooks is perishable...the tools of self-directedness serve one well over time." These early experiences may have contributed to his later emphasis on the importance of personal agency.

Bandura soon became fascinated by psychology after enrolling at the University of British Columbia. He had started out as a biological sciences major and his interest in psychology formed quite by accident. While working nights and commuting to school with a group of students, he found himself arriving at school earlier than his courses started. To pass the time, he began taking "filler classes" during these early morning hours, which led him to eventually stumble upon psychology.

Bandura explained, "One morning, I was wasting time in the library. Someone had forgotten to return a course catalog and I thumbed through it attempting to find a filler course to occupy the early time slot. I noticed a course in psychology that would serve as excellent filler. It sparked my interest and I found my career."

He earned his degree from the University of British Columbia in 1949 after just three years of study and then went on to graduate school at the University of Iowa. The school had been home to Clark Hull and other psychologists including Kenneth Spence and 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 1951 and his PhD in clinical psychology in 1952.

Career and Theories

After earning his Ph.D., he was offered a position at Stanford University. Bandura accepted the offer (even though it meant resigning from another position he had already accepted). He began working at Stanford in 1953 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. "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 explained in his 1977 book on the subject. His theory integrated a continuous interaction between behaviors, cognitions, and the environment.

His most famous experiment was the 1961 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 study was significant because it departed from behaviorism's insistence that all behavior is directed by reinforcement or rewards. 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. "People with high assurance in their capabilities approach difficult tasks as challenges to be mastered rather than as threats to be avoided," he has suggested.

Is Albert Bandura a Behaviorist?

While most psychology textbooks place Bandura's theory with those of the behaviorists, Bandura himself has noted that he "...never really fit the behavioral orthodoxy."

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."

"Authors of psychological texts continue to mischaracterize my approach as rooted in behaviorism," Bandura has explained, describing his own perspective as 'social cognitivism.'

Selected Publications

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 1953 paper titled "'Primary' and 'secondary' suggestibility" that appeared in the Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology.

In 1973, Bandura published Aggression: A Social Learning Analysis, which focused on the origins of aggression. His 1977 book Social Learning Theory presented the basics of his theory of how people learn though observation and modeling.

Contributions to Psychology

In 1974, Bandura was elected president of the American Psychological Association. The APA awarded him for his distinguished scientific contributions in 1980 and again in 2004 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. In 2015, Bandura was awarded the National Medal of Science by President Barack Obama.

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Lawson, RB, Graham, JE, & Baker, KM. A History of Psychology. New York: Routledge; 2015.

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Albert Bandura is an influential social cognitive psychologist who is perhaps best-known for his social learning theory, the concept of self-efficacy, and his famous Bobo doll experiments. He is a Professor Emeritus at Stanford University and is widely regarded as one of the greatest living psychologists.