Bandura's Social Cognitive Learning Theory

Introduction of the Theory (History) Social Learning Theory was introduced by Albert Bandura in year 1977 ( McLeod, 2011). Social Learning Theory was mainly talking about how environmental factor influence the social behavior of an individual. An individual will simply observe and imitate the behaviors or actions of nearby people. In the early stages of Albert Bandura’s research for social learning theory, he analyzed the basics of learning process of human and also the willingness of children and adults to imitate behaviors observed in others. Models are an important source for an individual to learn new things and behaviors.

In society we can be educated formally and informally. Formal education is where individuals purposefully learnt a new skill by having another member of the society teach them, while informal education is based on socialisation. Informal education is inherited and learnt through observing elders in the community. The society plays a large role in informal education as you learn informally through day to day living and involvement in the lives of people around you. The community trains children to learn what is and what is not acceptable in their specific culture.

Thanks to the staff members of the school, I am able to operate confidently using the internet and Moodle as all lecture notes, class activities and assignments are posted on Moodle for students to excess. Comparing to secondary schools where we had to copy from the board and into our exercise books. The academic criteria for assessments and the amount of time spent in class in secondary schools is different from University. Students at the secondary level are always under strict supervision while at the University students have access to a bit of freedom but are expected to behave maturely. Students who lived with their families and go to school as day students in secondary schools eat fresh and healthy food at home and have privacy to their own rooms, bathroom and toilet.

This was demonstrated in Bandura’s 'Bobo Doll Study' which involved male and female participants from 3 to 5 years old with half the participants exposed to aggressive models interacting with a life-sized inflatable Bobo doll whilst the other half were exposed to models with no aggression. Children in the aggressive condition repeated most of the physical and verbal aggressive behaviour whereas children in the non-aggressive showed virtually no aggression. The findings support the Social Learning theory as the aggressive behaviour displayed came directly from watching an aggressive model (Bandura,

In a series of classic experiments by Albert Bandura in the 1960s, preschool-aged children watched an adult attack a large blow-up clown: the Bo-Bo doll. His experiments demonstrated that young children would imitate the violent and aggressive actions of an adult model. In the experiment, children observed a film in which an adult repeatedly hit a large, inflatable balloon doll. After viewing the film clip, children were allowed to play in a room with a real Bobo doll just like the one they saw in the film. What Bandura found was that children were more likely to imitate the adult 's violent actions when the adult either received no consequences or when the adult was actually rewarded for their violent actions.

Wisdom in fiction has developed through the years and can take many forms in todays literature. We can see wisdom ranging from the common old wizards or grandmother figures, to something along the lines of children or teens realizing and learning pieces of life early on. In this paper we will focus on one such child, Owen Meany, from the novel A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving. One’s perception of what characters are wisest all depend on how the term is defined and by what formula it is laid out. For the purpose of this paper and analysis the wisdom will be very Ardelt in theory.

Observational Learning Mahroo Ali 19-10662 PSYC 100-D Nazia Asif Takkhar   Observation Learning Mahroo Ali Forman Christian College Q1: Discuss the role of observational learning in the development of negative behaviors in adolescents (teenagers). Observational Learning Learning behavior from the naturalistic social situations, environment and family and imitating it, is called Observational Learning. Some common examples of Observational learning that we can observe from our lives are; learning our native language, social values, facial expressions and personality traits of the people around us. It can be summed up as the phenomenon of learning from the inspection of another person 's behavior. Concepts of observational learning, imitation, vicarious reinforcement and self-regulative functions, social learning theory greatly increased its potential power to explain many facts of child development (Baldwin, 1973).

She repeated the saying after her mother, which includes "Happy New Year great-grandmother, I wish you good luck and good health". According to Beatrice Whiting and John Whiting's model for psycho-cultural model, the relations between the development of an individual and features of their environment, social patterns, and institutional and cultural systems and values (Rogoff 43). This modeled shows that the child's learning environment is occupied by the setting and the behavior is learned through the adult based on the ritual and ceremony. This model emphasizes that the understanding of human development requires a detailed understanding of situations in which people develop based on the cultural processes in which children participates in. Destiny learns and absorbs the information that is being told by her mother.

In the James Harvey Robinson story “On Various Kinds of Thinking” and the Ralph Waldo Emerson story “Self Reliance” both of the authors talk about the different ways people process information. Along with this, the two authors address how people pursue knowledge in different ways. For Robinson, he proves that people do not only apply their minds to work ideas out, but also the persuasion of others. On the other hand, Emerson states that we have learned to follow since it is all we have ever known and do not wish to risk stepping out of our comfort zones. Both of these authors write about similar ways of learning, but their ways also differentiate from each other.

This is what I’ve discovered about my learning style throughout the years; I have found that when I am in a stressful exam situation the information I can most readily recall is what I heard in class rather than anything I studied myself outside of the classroom. I learn best through listening and then reviewing notes at a later date to refresh my

Schemas are categories of knowledge that help us decipher and figure out the world. As we experience more throughout our life, new information changes our previous existent schemas (Cherry, 2015). Piaget called the schema the “basic building block of intelligent behavior- a way of organizing knowledge” (McLeod, 2015, para. 16). Because my mother bottle fed me as a baby, I started to learn a constant pattern.