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5 unusual facts about Albert Bandura


Educational television

He developed a model which incorporated the work of Albert Bandura and other theorists, as well as research to determine whether programs impacted audience behavior.

Family resilience

These include Bandura's Self-Efficacy Theory, Lazarus’ Stress Theory, Froma Walsh's Family Resilience Framework, and McCubbin and Patterson’s Family Stress and Resilience Model.

Gender roles in young children

A study by Bandura and Bussey shows that kids want to be like others of their sex.

Self-efficacy

Psychologist Albert Bandura has defined self-efficacy as one's belief in one's ability to succeed in specific situations.

Social learning theory

Within this context, Albert Bandura studied learning processes that occurred in interpersonal contexts and were not adequately explained by theories of operant conditioning or existing models of social learning, such as the work of Julian Rotter.


Goal setting

This can reduce self-efficacy and thereby harm the performance outcomes in the long run.

Leadership analysis

Important theorists for a psychobiography would be Allport, Alfred Adler, Erik Erikson, Freud, Bronfenbrenner, Carl Jung, Albert Bandura, John Bowlby, among others.


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