ALBERT BANDURA

Alfred Bandura was born on December 4, 1925 in Mundare, Alberta.

CHILDHOOD/HOME LIFE

• Youngest of 6 children
• Only boy
• His parents were very keen on their children doing well in school
• One small school with only 2 teachers

BASIC PHILOSOPHY/ BELIEFS

• Imitation
• Believes that a kid sees and observes the actions and imitates aggressive behavior

EXPERIMENTS/STUDIES/RESULTS

• Bobo doll experiment
• Boys imitated more physically aggressive acts than girls.
• Social learning theory- people learn through observing others behavior, attitudes, and outcomes of those behaviors
• Girls are more aggressive toward males and girls are more verbal aggressive towards other females

STRANGEST/MOST INTERESTING EXPERIMENT

• Bobo Doll Experiment
• In his experiment, he showed a film of a woman acting aggressive toward a bobo doll.
• Showed the same film to a group of children, and afterward the children immediately began hitting the bobo doll.

SOURCES

• Psych.ualberta.ca
• Stanford.edu
• Simplypsychology.org
• Psychology.about.com
• Thefamouspeople.com

THEORIST VS. THEORY

• Albert lived with 5 girls and was the youngest child. This caused him to do a theory about aggressiveness and how girls react vs. how boys react.

Video link

http://youtu.be/hHHdovKHDNU