This site describes the life history and accomplishments of Albert Bandura.  The sites included tell a biography of his life and give information about Albert Bandura's social theories and cognitive theories.

1.  Biography of Albert Bandura:  This article is a biography of the life of Albert Bandura. Born on December 4, 1925, in the small town of Mundare in northern Alberta, Canada, he was educated in a small elementary school and high school.  After high school, he worked for one summer filling holes on the Alaska Highway in the Yukon. This article includes his theories and his therapies.

2.  Albert Bandura's Social Theory: Albert Bandura is important in social learning theory (SLT), but his theory also relates to behaviorism because his theory addresses the elements of learning (attention, memory, drive) that are included in both behavioral and social theories.  Bandura is best known for "modeling" in learning.

3.  Powerpoint Presentation on Albert Bandura's Cognitive Theory:   Chapter 8 in the Biggie and Shermis text deals with the cognitive interaction theory.  This is one of the current learning theories. A short powerpoint presentation has been prepared to help students through this chapter.  Students are advised to review this presentation before proceeding through this session.

4.  Albert Bandura's View on Social Learning:  Observational or social learning is based primarily on the work of Albert Bandura. He and his colleagues were able to demonstrate through a variety of experiments that the application of consequences was not necessary for learning to take place.

5.  Psychological History:  In 1949, Bandura received his B.A. from the University of British Columbia. Bandura then went on to the University of Iowa where he obtained his doctorate in 1952. Upon graduation, Bandura did a clinical internship at the Wichita Kansas Guidance Center. The following year, in 1953, Bandura accepted a teaching position at Stanford where he continues to teach today. While at the University of Iowa, Bandura's interests in Social Learning Theory and behaviorism began to grow.