ALBERT BANDURA

BACKGROUND

• Born December 4th, 1925 in Canada
• Graduated from the University of British Columbia
• Received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology
• From the University of Iowa in 1952
• He got to school early and went to "Filler classes" to pass the time

HIS THEORY

• Social Learning Theory
• Includes observational learning, imitation, and modeling
• People learn by observing the experiences of others

BOBO DOLL EXPERIMENT

• Experiment to prove his theory
• Showed that kids will imitate violence that they observe
• By far his most famous experiment

BANDURA'S ACHIEVEMENTS

• Taught at Stanford
• Served as Presdient of the APA
• Received the APA's award for Distinguished Scientific Contribution in 1980
• Won the Outstanding Lifetime Contribution to Psychology in 2004