Albert Bandura: Observational Learning

ALBERT BANDURA : OBSERVATIONAL LEARNING

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Albert Bandura : Observational Learning

Albert Bandura 's concept of learning is anchored on behaviorism . He was able to create his own theory out of it and called it social learning theory . This is based on his suggestion that the environment causes behavior but behavior causes environment as well . This concept was called reciprocal determinism (Boree , n .d

One example of the influence of observational learning is the influence of the news and the media on the minds of

individuals . Media and entertainment influence people in such a way that the industry involved in television or film get to dictate what is beautiful , what it ugly , or what is desirable . This is evident in commercials and advertisements This results to people seemingly flooding shops and malls to avail of products that will make them conform to the standard that the media established

Social learning theory can be applied in many aspects of learning especially in child leaning . Raising a child using this theory produces a number of implications . The positive implications of such are that learning would become easier . For modeling to be successful for the child to acquire new behaviors , a number of factors must be followed such as attention , retention , reproduction of the act or behavior , and motivation through reinforcement . Parents , especially mothers , are the closest individuals in a child 's life , and thus being referred to as their role model . If the mother or the...