Albert Bandura
- Who He Is
- Born on December 4th in 1925 in Canada, her was a behaviorist who taught psychology at Stanford University.
- Importance to Human Development and Education
- Bandura did a lot of studying of children's behavior in relation to imitation. He disagreed with the ideas of Watson and Skinner in the sense that he believed behaviors were not simply developed from the environment. He came up with the idea of self-efficacy, which by definition is the belief in our power to influence our own functioning and life circumstances. Simply put, Bandura believes that people set goals they know they can reach, and never set goals that we know we will fail. This is important because it reminds people that work with children to be careful of any inappropriate or unsafe actions because children often time imitate what they see in adults.
- Theories or Famous Experiments
self-efficacy- Bandura's concept of a belief in our power to influence our own functioning and life circumstances (Levine & Munsch 45)
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"People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives."
-Albert Bandura