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Albert Bandura
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| Born | December 4, 1925 |
| Died | July 26, 2021 (aged 95) Stanford, California, U.S.
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| Alma mater | University of British Columbia University of Iowa |
| Known for | Social cognitive theory Self-efficacy Social learning theory Bobo doll experiment Human agency Reciprocal determinism |
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| Fields | Psychology, developmental psychology |
| Institutions | Stanford University |
| Influences | Robert Sears, Clark Hull, Kenneth Spence, Arthur Benton. Neal Miller |
Albert Bandura OC ( December 4, 1925 – July 26, 2021) was a Canadian-American psychologist who was the David Starr Jordan Professor in Psychology at Stanford University.
Bandura was responsible for contributions to the field of education and to several fields of psychology, including social cognitive theory, therapy, and personality psychology, and was also of influence in the transition between behaviorism and cognitive psychology. He is known as the originator of social learning theory (renamed the social cognitive theory) and the theoretical construct of self-efficacy, and is also responsible for the influential 1961 Bobo doll experiment. This Bobo doll experiment demonstrated the concept of observational learning.
A 2002 survey ranked Bandura as the fourth most-frequently cited psychologist of all time, behind B. F. Skinner, Sigmund Freud, and Jean Piaget. During his lifetime, Bandura was widely described as the greatest living psychologist, and as one of the most influential psychologists of all time.
Bandura died at his home in Stanford on July 26, 2021, from congestive heart failure, at the age of 95.
