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A brief look at the theories of Albert Bandura
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A brief look at the theories of Albert Bandura Albert Bandura was influenced by behaviourism while at the University of Iowa studying for his PhD in the early 1950s, he developed his own theories called reciprocal determinism, he believed that not only does the environment influence behaviour, but behaviour influences the environment, or to put it in his own words 'the world and a persons behaviour cause each other'. Bandura is often considered a 'father' of the cognitive movement, he looked at personality as three things that interact, the environment, behaviour and the person's psychological processes. The psychological processes consisted of language and the ability to use our minds imagery. It was really at this stage in his life that he moved from being a behaviourist and became a cognitivist. Bandura carried out hundreds of studies but the ones that stand out more to me than any others, are the Bobo...
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