Albert Bandura

Theoretical Relevance of Albert Bandura’s Theories on Real-life Applications
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An individual will always describe a particular behavior or characteristic that attributes him or her depending on where, how, and who brought up this individual being considered. The surroundings environment are therefore likely to alter the way an individual makes of particular aspects about how these aspects relate to or impact the life of the subject individual. Evidently, the activities to which an individual involves his or herself in have been determined to be psychologically based; they tend to relate to how an individual perceives a phenomenon basing on the initial interaction to which this person had had with the phenomenon. Theoretical description of the perceived event is always important because a detailed definition is formed on the basis that an individual’s character should be accurately be defined on what is observed and what is learned from the observations. Bandura can serve as a good example is illustrating the theoretical descriptions of life and human relations
Theoretical Relevance of Albert Bandura’s Theories on Real-life Applications
Biography is the detailed account of an individual’s life as written by another, the account written may or may not be considerate of stating all the key aspects and activities to which the subject individual may have involved in their lifetime while growing up. In this psychology article, Albert Bandura has been described in the activities he was involved in and how what he stood for modified our perception of learning concerning his theories and the relations the theory had with our lives.

We, therefore, seek to determine the life, work life, as well as theoretical description and relevance of Albert Bandura in the lives of students and psychologists.
Albert Bandura was born in 1925, in Mundare, in Alberta, northern Canada. He was youngest in a family of six, and his parents were immigrants from Eastern Europe, his father was from Krakow, Poland, and his mother was from Ukraine. Bandura’s father worked for a building firm, and he took part in the laying the track in trans-Canada railroad and mother worked in Mundare, as a general store attendant. His family were not that fortunate, their savings were not sufficient, they bought themselves a wooden home and were practically involved in modifying it.
Bandura’s family were not educated, they had no skills that would perhaps be attributed to attending school, the family, therefore, placed a tremendous value in seeking knowledge through learning and being educated. Bandura’s father, for example, took himself the task of learning three languages, which is inclusive of; Polish, Russian, and German. Besides, he worked as a member of the school board in the district the family lived. The struggles that the family had were described by Bandura, and he termed them hard though very much productive. The family is greatly involved in farming owing to the fact that they needed adequate finance to cater for the education of Bandura and his siblings.
Bandura’s parents always advised him to look for any available experience beyond the confinements of their small hamlet and the struggles that seemed to be distractions throughout his education. They greatly emphasized on celebrating one’s life, more so the family they were lucky to have, this would certainly make an individual take charge of his or her life (Albert, 2006). He then completed college and joined the University of British Columbia, where he ought to expand his experience as always advised by his parents. After finishing his studies, he joined Stanford University, an institution he had a liking for, and appreciated the gifts the students from the institution had.
He has greatly been involved in psychological research, a study to which his theories are based. In what has been stated earlier own, an individual’s perception on a particular issue is based on another aspect, and will likely influence another. Bandura’s career theories include; social learning theory and social efficacy which have been seen to be pivotal in modifying our perception of things.
Social Learning Theory
This is an observation-based learning, where Bandura the importance of making observations as a supplement in learning about specific subjects. He further describes the social method of learning came involve making an imitational, a process he terms as laborious (Grusec, 2002). A laborious structure of learning involves one that an individual hardly ascertains what he learns; this individual is therefore required to make a step further so that he or she will learn better on the initial information that this individual has imitated. Continuous interaction with the character and behavior of specific cognitive aspects can be integrated to aid learning, as depicted by Bandura where learning seeks to enforce a reward that would motivate an individual to crave for knowledge (Grusec, 2002). The attention experience will be retained, reciprocated and, made part of this learning individual.
Self-efficacy Theory
According to Bandura, the expectations of an individual’s self-efficiency can be hypothesized; the hypothesis will aim to determine the probable potential of an individual. Bandura bases hypothesis statement and evaluation of performance, accomplishment, vicarious experience, and verbal persuasion that will certainly make an individual aware of his or her self-efficiency potential (Albert, 1998).
A psychological state must be considered when describing how the determination of self-efficacy is developed after a series of repetition which certain will attribute good learning and determined self—perception, a factor seen to influence cognitive efficacy and processing (Albert, Self-efficacy: Toward a unifying theory of behavioral change, 1998).
Conclusion
Many people have been seen to be limited by their struggles, the struggles hinder and individual from realizing his or her self-potential despite the existing structures that can be used to make an individual realize the potential he or she possesses. Judging situations before having an experience, makes it hard for an individual to weigh whether they can face the challenge ahead of them or not. Bandura’s perception of life struggles is that they are challenges which make us motivated and device strategies that will enable us to overcome them; therefore, we should not be limited by our struggles.
References
BIBLIOGRAPHY Albert, B. (1998). Sellf-efficacy: Toward a unifying theory of behavioral change . Psychological Review Journal Vol 84(2), 191-215.
Albert, B. (2006). Psychology Modeling by Conflicting Theories (Paperback). Aldine Transaction.
Grusec, J. E. (2002). Social learning theory and developmental psychology: The legacies of Robert Sears ans Albert Bandura. Development Psychology 28(5), 776-786.