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A 5 page paper that begins with a brief biography of Bandura. The paper explains Bandura’s theories about personality, including the steps in observation and modeling. Self-efficacy is also discussed. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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was an immigrant from Krakow, Poland and his mother was an immigrant from the Ukraine. Although not educated themselves, the parents placed a high value on education. Albert graduated from
the one-room schoolhouse and left for a job filling holes on the Alaskan pipeline in the Yukon (Boeree, 2006; Thom, 2012). He returned after a year to attend the University
of British Columbia. His introduction to psychology was by chance; he car-pooled with engineering and pre-med students who had early classes. To fill his time, Bandura took a psychology class
that was available at that hour. Three years later, Bandura graduated with the top honor in psychology. He went on to the University of Iowa to pursue graduate study where
he became interested in behaviorism and learning theory (Boeree, 2006; Thom, 2012). He graduated with his PhD in 1952. He also met his future wife, who was a nursing instructor.
They would marry and have two daughters (Boeree, 2006; Thom, 2012). He was offered a post-doctoral position at the Wichita Guidance center and a year later, he was offered
a teaching post at Stanford (Boeree, 2006; Thom, 2012). Bandura worked on aggressiveness in children at Stanford and through his studies discovered that a child does not need to be
reinforced to continue a behavior. He and a collaborator discovered that if a child came from a home where hostility was demonstrated, the child would model these hostile behaviors (Thom,
2012). This led to his famous work with the Bobo doll. At no time were children reinforced for aggressive behavior, they were modeling what they had seen (Thom, 2012). This
was against the prevailing behaviorist model of learning and opened up a new line of inquiry for Bandura. Bandura stated that his agentic view of personality, which is the socio-cognitive
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