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    1) Albert Bandura developed social learning theory which posits that people learn through observation of others' behaviors and their consequences. His theory involves four processes: attention, retention, reproduction, and motivation. 2) Bandura's theory combines cognitive and behavioral development and proposes that personality arises from an interaction between environmental and self-influences. Self-regulation involves self-observation, judgment, and self-response. 3) Bandura's famous Bobo doll experiment demonstrated that children imitate aggressive behaviors they observe in adults, supporting the idea that observation is key to learning.

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    1) Albert Bandura developed social learning theory which posits that people learn through observation of others' behaviors and their consequences. His theory involves four processes: attention, retention, reproduction, and motivation. 2) Bandura's theory combines cognitive and behavioral development and proposes that personality arises from an interaction between environmental and self-influences. Self-regulation involves self-observation, judgment, and self-response. 3) Bandura's famous Bobo doll experiment demonstrated that children imitate aggressive behaviors they observe in adults, supporting the idea that observation is key to learning.

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    1) Albert Bandura developed social learning theory which posits that people learn through observation of others' behaviors and their consequences. His theory involves four processes: attention, retention, reproduction, and motivation. 2) Bandura's theory combines cognitive and behavioral development and proposes that personality arises from an interaction between environmental and self-influences. Self-regulation involves self-observation, judgment, and self-response. 3) Bandura's famous Bobo doll experiment demonstrated that children imitate aggressive behaviors they observe in adults, supporting the idea that observation is key to learning.

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    Running head: Albert Bandura

    Albert Bandura: Social Cognizance

    In the world of psychology developmental theorist are considered key to help figure out
    the development of the human mind and life cycle. Those theorists generally only deal with
    personal development though. We have all heard of Freud, Erikson and Piaget, and their theories
    towards the person. What about social developmental theory? Enter Albert Bandura and his far
    reaching theory about society and its role in personal development.
    Banduras theories involve observational learning, and are done in four steps:
    1) Attention- In order for an individual to learn anything, he or she must pay attention to the features of the
    modeled behavior. Many factors contribute to the amount of attention one pays to the modeled activities,
    such as the characteristics of both the observer and the person being observed and competing stimuli.
    2) Retention- If an individual is to be influenced by observing behaviors he or she needs to remember the
    activities that were modeled at one time or another. Imagery and language aid in this process of retaining
    information. Humans store the behaviors they observe in the form of mental images or verbal descriptions,
    and are then able to recall the image or description later to reproduce the activity with their own behavior.
    3) Reproduction- Reproduction involves converting symbolic representations into appropriate actions.
    Behavioral reproduction is accomplished by organizing one's own responses in accordance with the
    modeled pattern. A person's ability to reproduce a behavior improves with practice.
    4) Motivation- To imitate a behavior, the person must have some motivating factor behind it, such as
    incentives that a person envisions. These imagined incentives act as reinforces. Negative reinforces
    discourage the continuation of the modeled activity. (Moore, 1999)

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    Bandura melds both cognitive and behavioral development together to form his theory.
    He also feels that the personality is a mixture of environmental and self-psychologies. These
    merge together to form self-regulation, a process combined of three steps:
    1) Self observation- Humans look at themselves and their behavior and keep track of their actions.
    2) Judgment- Humans compare these observations with standards. These standards can be rules set by
    society, or standards that the individual sets for him or herself.
    3) Self response- If, after judging himself or herself, the person does well in comparison with the set
    standards, he or she will give him or her- self a rewarding self-response. If the person does poorly he or she
    then administers a punishing self-response to him or herself. (Moore, 1999)

    Possibly the most famous of Banduras experiments was the Bobo the doll experiment
    where:
    Bandura included an adult who is tasked to act aggressively toward a Bobo Doll while the children observe him.
    Later, Bandura let the children play inside a room with the Bobo Doll. He affirmed that these children imitated the
    aggressive behavior toward the doll, which they had observed earlier. (Sincero, 2011)

    Essentially this theory goes to show that children learn in part by observing adults or role
    models. While Freud believes that children develop at their own pace going through stages,
    Bandura believes observation is key. This is an important theory because it shows how much
    their environment influences humans. These environmental influences will shape each person
    into who they grow up to become. (Bandura, 1989)
    As a child the most influential people would be the parents. They are the role models,
    care givers and the ones who usher us into society and beyond. For me, the one I took most of
    my social cues from was my father. He is a stubborn man who held cynical beliefs about the
    world. But the odd thing is, even with all of his cynicism, he could still be a pleasant person,
    even making five minute friends. As I observed this, I too became cynical, but also had the
    ability to talk to anybody. These would be factors of the environment. (Bandura, 1989) This

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    affected me greatly going through life. I too was stubborn. I developed my cynicism at an
    alarming rate through my observations. Only when I faced repercussions did I choose to alter any
    behavior. (Bandura, 1989)
    But the wonderful thing about growing into your own person is you also have the ability
    to change who you are. As I grew older, I also became aware of my actions. Sometime around
    the age of thirty I had decided that being cynical and stubborn all the time could not be as
    beneficial as I had once believed. There is a developmental theory for this,
    The adult brain seems to be capable of rewiring itself well into middle age, incorporating decades of experiences and
    behaviors. Research suggests, for example, the middle-aged mind is calmer, less neurotic and better able to sort
    through social situations. Some middle-agers even have improved cognitive abilities. (Phillips, 2011)

    As I grew I felt a yearning to change who I was. Not just for societal standards, but for
    my own. These changes continue to this day, and will until I no longer posses the cognitive
    ability to do so. These are the chances that positively change me now. Bandura, and even
    Erikson, Freud and Piaget may have come up with the theories that molded my early life, and
    Eriksons theories extend through out life. (McLeod, 2013) But it was my decision to change that
    made these alterations. Then again, maybe I truly and just following the exact process that all
    humans follow.

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    References
    Bandura, A. (1989). Social Cognitive Theory. Stanford University. Palo Alto:
    Stanford University.
    McLeod, S. (2013). http://www.simplypsychology.org/Erik-Erikson.html.
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    http://www.simplypsychology.org/Erik-Erikson.html
    Moore, A. (1999, 5).

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