Essays Tagged: "Albert Bandura"

Children, TV, and Violence

and child. Children are very susceptible and easily persuaded as we all know. In the early 1960's, Albert Bandura of Stanford was the first to present the theory that children not only learned from t ...

(10 pages) 360 0 4.7 Dec/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies > The Media

Case Study of Bill Clinton, Freudian Perspective

continually positively reinforced(Sdorow, 1995) a desire for politics and eventually the presidency.Albert Bandura's Social-Cognitive theory(Sdorow, 1995) would argue that Clinton's personal dispositi ...

(4 pages) 91 0 3.7 Nov/1996

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Presidents

Personality Theories

er to a person's social skills. Personality theories try to explain why we think and what we think. Albert Bandura's Social-Learning Theory, Walter Mischel's Cognitive-Affective Theory and Carl Roger' ...

(3 pages) 566 0 2.6 Feb/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays

Bandura and Social Learning Theory

such a classic phrase? Scientific evidence. Through years of research, world-renowned psychologist Albert Bandura created an entirely new field of psychology based on a fairly simple idea: humans lea ... dea: humans learn by observation.Born on December 4, 1925, in the small town of Mundare in northern Alberta, Canada, Bandura was educated in a small elementary school and high school in one, with mini ...

(3 pages) 385 0 3.8 Feb/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies > The Media

Behaviorism APA format

ssible to condition humans and animals. In his famous study, Watson conditioned a young child named Albert to fear a white rat. He did so by creating a loud noise whenever Albert touched the rat. Frig ... down to a theory of personality that says that one's environment causes one's behavior. A man named Albert Bandura found this a bit too simplistic for the phenomena he was observing, aggression in ado ...

(7 pages) 370 1 4.5 Apr/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays

Censorship

lation was made between television violence and violence in society. (Howitt and Cumberbatch, 1975) Albert Bandura on the other hand set the precedence with his studies correlating the viewing of tele ...

(5 pages) 80 0 3.4 Nov/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays

Children in their Formative Years

requisite skills to perform the behavior and an opportunity to practice. (Internet-www.cdec.wc.edu Albert Bandura 1925-)From birth to age seven is the approximate rage where children are the most inf ...

(3 pages) 91 2 4.8 Mar/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Social Learning Thoery.

arn from one another and includes such concepts as observational learning, imitation and modelling. Albert Bandura is considered the leading proponent of this theory.Social learning theory is in part ...

(10 pages) 361 0 4.5 Jan/2006

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology

An analysis of Bandura's work with children and bobo dolls.

BanduraAlbert Bandura proposes that cognitive developmental change occurs mainly through observational lear ...

(1 pages) 48 0 5.0 Mar/2006

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Agression in males

e nature we can look at the theories of five prominent Psychoanalysts: Sigmund Freud, Erik Erikson, Albert Bandura, B.F Skinner, And John. B. Watson.By analyzing these theories using Charles' case stu ... by examining the ways in which we differ, in comparison to the "standard" that his theory provides.Albert Bandura is a psychologist whose theory is centered on behaviorism. Behaviorism, with it's emp ...

(16 pages) 43 0 3.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

I agree with Bandura’s theories on behaviorism. In my very

I agree with Bandura?s theories on behaviorism. In my very own family examples of his ideas are very prevalent. M ... nd us, and we imitated what we see as rewarding in our little subculture.In conclusion I think that Banduras beliefs are true and we are all, for the most part products of what we see around us.

(1 pages) 20 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Human Aggression

among these theories because there is solid evidence instead of abstract ideas.In 1961, a man named Albert Bandura did an experiment to prove his theory that humans learn aggressive acts from their ro ...

(3 pages) 31 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays

The Cognitive, Neurophysiological and Evolutionary Theories of Learning

Gestalt psychologists Kurt Lewin and Kurt Koffka, as well as Jean Piaget, Edward Chace Tolman, and Albert Bandura. Wertheimer, Kohler and Lewin were founders of the Gestalt movement. According to Her ... ast amount of work according to Tolman's principle of least effort that will result in satisfaction.Albert Bandura, another cognitive theorist suggested that behavior is learned through observation. H ...

(5 pages) 151 0 0.0 Apr/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Psychological Theories & Authors

Critically assess the view put forward by linguist Noam Chomsky that children are "predisposed", to learn language with ease because their brains contain "language acquisition devices".

innate as suggested by Chomsky? Or people are learning language through observation as suggested by Albert Bandura? And could Skinner’s view towards language development and learning explain it? ...

(6 pages) 54 0 3.0 Jun/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Albert Bandura - A Biography

Albert Bandura � PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT �1� Running head: ALBERT BANDURAAlbert Ban ... ; Running head: ALBERT BANDURAAlbert BanduraUniversity of PhoenixPsy 250Oct 30, 2006��Albert BanduraPsychology of the personality can be a vast arena. Due to the many different personali ... r schools of thought, which are supported by some influential minds. One of the most interesting is Albert Bandura. When discussing Mr. Bandura, it is important to determine the school of thought he s ...

(5 pages) 62 1 3.0 Jan/2009

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Psychological Theories & Authors

Learning Personalities Theories

ith the people around them. Learning theories include Burrhus Frederic Skinner's behavior analysis, Albert Bandura's social cognitive theory, Rotter and Mischel cognitive social learning theory, and G ... in the most useful data for predicting and controlling behavior" (Feist & Feist, 2006, p.434). Albert Bandera's theory of social cognitive focuses on learning by observation, reinforcement and mo ...

(4 pages) 178 1 5.0 Mar/2009

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Psychological Theories & Authors

Bandura's Social-Cognitive Theory

ement (Miller & Dollard, 1941). This decisive theory was further researched and developed by A. Bandura & R.H. Walters. However, in 1977 Bandura presented his concept of self-efficacy; which i ... icacy; which in turn, rejected the earlier theories of the traditional learning theory.According to Bandura, the social cognitive theory explains how people acquire and maintain certain behavioral pat ...

(4 pages) 83 0 0.0 Jun/2009

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

Human development

understand optimal development and care (Mandleco, 2007). Many theorists, including Sigmund Freud, Albert Bandura and Erik Erikson, have contributed to the human development process, in order to show ... nital phase where child starts to develop opposite sex relationship, starting at the age of puberty.Albert Bandura (1925 - ) is another major theorist in this area of study. Bandura is known for his " ...

(8 pages) 149 0 3.0 Aug/2009

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

Learning Personality Theories

ersonality theory based on his Behavioral Analysis theories. Social Cognitive theory was created by Albert Bandura. This theory states that reactions to events are more influential than the events the ... rmation or behavioral traits from being in a certain relationship with another individual or group. Albert Bandura's social cognitive theory which supports the idea that humans evaluate and regulate t ...

(5 pages) 150 0 0.0 Aug/2009

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Psychological Theories & Authors

Albert Bandura’s Social-Cognitive Theory Related to Gender Roles during Early Childhood

Albert Bandura's Social-Cognitive Theory Related toGender Roles during Early ChildhoodSamuel J. McAr ... r Roles during Early ChildhoodSamuel J. McArtorColorado State UniversityAbstractThis paper explains Albert Bandura's (Bandura) Social-Cognitive Theory and its relation to gender development during ear ... tion to gender development during early childhood which is ages two through six. The main staple of Albert Bandura's Social-Cognitive Theory is the premise that children observe things in their enviro ...

(5 pages) 13 0 0.0 Oct/2011

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community > Children and Youngsters