Albert Bandura was a Canadian-American psychologist born in 1925 who is renowned for his social learning theory and research on observational learning and aggression. His work at Stanford University in the 1960s and 1970s involved conducting studies demonstrating that children learn social behaviors and aggression through observation and modeling, without direct reinforcement. Bandura's social learning theory proposes that people learn through observation via attention, retention, reproduction, and motivation processes. He received a Gold Medal Award for his influential contributions to the field of psychology.