Gordo biography of albert bandura

Kendra Cherry, MS, is a psychosocial rehabilitation specialist, psychology educator, and author of the "Everything Psychology Book. Albert Bandura was an influential social cognitive psychologist who was perhaps best known for his social learning theory, the concept of self-efficacy, and his famous Bobo doll experiments. Until his death on July 26, , he was a Professor Emeritus at Stanford University and was widely regarded as one of the most influential psychologists in history.

One survey ranked him as the fourth most influential psychologist of the twentieth century, behind only B. Skinner, Sigmund Freud, and Jean Piaget.

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Albert Bandura was born on December 4, , in a small Canadian town located approximately 50 miles from Edmonton. The last of six children, Bandura's early education consisted of one small school with only two teachers for high school. According to Bandura, because of this limited access to educational resources, "The students had to take charge of their own education.

He realized that while "the content of most textbooks is perishable Bandura soon became fascinated by psychology after enrolling at the University of British Columbia. He had started out as a biological sciences major and his interest in psychology formed by accident. While working nights and commuting to school with a group of students, he found himself arriving at school earlier than his courses started.