Bandura Reflection

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Over the course of this essay I will be delving into the pertinent drivers which have led me to making an occasional purchase of a Galaxy chocolate bar. When I was younger, I would often go food shopping with my mother on a saturday to help with the loading and unloading of the shopping in and out of the car. The reason I have decided to do my reflective essay on Galaxy was due to the fact that throughout my youth, on the odd occasion my mother would treat herself to a bar of galaxy. She would always consume the chocolate after she put my younger brothers to bed, whilst she caught up on all the television she had missed. Mother always expressed feelings of happiness whenever she was able to put her feet up and induldge in rest and relaxation, with her bar of galaxy to hand. Due to the behaviour exhibited by my mother whilst consuming said chocolate, I would subsequently relate that chocolate to happy feelings and memories.
This reaction is keeping in line with Albert Bandura and his social learning theory. Bandura stated that “an occurrence of similarity between the behaviour of a model and another person under conditions where the models behaviour has served as the determinative cue for the matching responses” (Bandura, 1969, p. 217). (Bandura, 1969) stated that there are various subprocesses that occur before an individual is influenced by observational learning.
Firstly an individual must adhere to an Attentional process, which exaplained how an individual must be able

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