Albert Bandura's Theory

Albert Bandura was born on 1925 in Mundane which is in Canada. Also, he was the youngest of six children. While his mother worked at a General store, his father worked as a track layer for the Trans-Canada Railroad. They (parents) worked hard to save money for to buy land, and they became farmers. His parents pointed out that family was important during the difficult times. In addition to the previous sentence, they thought education was also essential for all the children (“Dr. Albert”). In the early academic life of Albert, he did all of his schooling in one place. The school he was attended had a limited number of teachers and resources. Due to the lack of resources, students had to teach themselves, throughout his school years, he learned about value and the importance of self-direction. After graduating from high

Since Breast Cancer is second of the leading diseases that women die from, Bandura’s theory was the change of behavior of women going through chemotherapy. For this experiment they used eighteen women were picked randomly. Variables used are the quality of life, symptom distress and self-efficacy. The real theory is if women had to challenge in their life, then his or sense of independence will strengthen.” Results showed that interventions to promote self-efficacy may increase quality of life and decrease symptom distress for women diagnosed with breast cancer (Lev).” One of the two impacts are the social models. After the experiment with the Bobo dolls, the impact is that he made models through observational experiment. The 3 models are a live model, verbal instruction model, and a symbolic model. Live model includes an actual person performing a behavior. Verbal Instructional Model involves telling a description about the behavior. Last is the symbolic model which talks about behavior through media such as TVs, movies and social network. All of these are the basic