Albert Bandura developed social cognitive theory, which posits that people learn through observation of others. According to the theory, there are four steps to learning a new behavior: attention, retention, reproduction, and motivation. People pay attention to a modeled behavior, remember it, practice reproducing it, and are more likely to imitate behaviors that are reinforced. Bandura demonstrated this theory through studies showing people imitating behaviors they observed in videos, even violent scenes. Social cognitive theory also involves concepts like imagery, self-efficacy, and self-regulation, in which people observe and evaluate their own behaviors. The theory can be demonstrated both with and without technology, such as showing behavior models via video or observing the behaviors of classmates.
2. Albert Bandura 1925 Focused on motivational facts and selfregulatory mechanisms, contributing to
person’s behavior, not environmental
factors
Believed people acquire behavior
through observation of others. After
observing they imitate what they have
witnessed.
Proved his Social Cognitive Theory by
studies including television commercials
and videos with violent scenes.
3. Social Cognitive Theory Steps
Attention: Student must be paying
attention to the modeled behavior.
Retention: Student needs to remember
the activities that were modeled.
Reproduction: Students response shows
symbols of the modeled behavior with
practice.
Motivation: reinforces are used to make
children more likely to imitate behaviors.
Imagery: an individuals ability to
retain information through images
in the mind.
Self-Efficacy: an individuals
personal observation about one’s
perceived ability to think, motivate
to learn and feel
4. Behavior Process: Self Regulation
Self observation: an individual
keeps track of their own actions.
Behavior
Environmental
Judgment: compare what an
individual observers with
standards that are set by society.
Personal
Self response: depending on a
persons standards set for
themselves, they will give
themselves an award.
5. Without technology
teachers will have to
find other ways to
be able to show a
behavior and see if
a student would
mimic it.
With technology
teachers can show
students something
and observe their
behavior.
6. With
technology
students will
be easily
shown a
video and
see the
behavior
they should
mimic or not
mimic and
easily see a
positive or
negative
result.
Without
technology
students will
be observed
by learning
the behviors
and actions
of fellow
students and
seeing if
they are
positive or
negative
results.
7. Thoughts:
In my classroom, I believe technology will not be used with this theory. Since I
am going into special education I believe the students will learn through the
actions of themselves and fellow classmates,. Whether or not they get a
positive or negative reaction.
