Describe your personal development through the lifespan. Include:
The major developmental theory you chose, it’s theorist, and the tenets of the theory;
Social Learning Theory – Albert Bandura
- People learn from one another via observation, imitation and modeling
- Bridge between behaviorist and cognitive theories
- Encompasses attention, memory and motivation
- Continuous reciprocal action between cognitive, environmental and behavioral influences
- Conditions for effective modeling:
- Attention
- Retention
- Reproduction
- Motivation
- Reciprocate Determinism – the world, and a person’s behavior cause each other
- Personality considered as an interaction between the environment, behavior and one’s psychological processes
- Related to Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory
