Albert Bandura Impact On Psychology

Albert Bandura’s Impact on Psychology

Kylo Ren

Oklahoma State University

PSYC 1113-009

January 27, 2016

Albert Bandura’s Impact on Psychology

Albert Bandura is one of the most influential social cognitive psychologists in the world. His contributions have led to significant advances in the treatment of clinical disorders. Albert Bandura is best known for his social learning theory, the concept of self-efficacy, and his famous Bobo doll experiments. He is a Professor at Stanford University and is widely regarded as one of the greatest living psychologists. A survey held in 2002 ranked him as the fourth most influential psychologist of the twentieth-century, behind B.F. Skinner, Jean Piaget, and Sigmund Freud (Bennet, 2002).

Albert Bandura 's social learning theory stressed the importance of

His straightforward, behaviorist like style makes good sense to most people. His action-oriented, problem-solving approach appeals to those who want to get things done, rather than philosophize about archetypes, actualization, freedom, and all the many other mentalist constructs other psychologist tend to dwell on. References

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