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Critiquing Bandura’s Social Cognitive Theory
Albert Bandura was born December 4, 1925, in the small town of Mundare in northern Alberta, Canada. ... , he came under the influence of the behaviorist tradition and learning theory. ... Bandura found this a bit too simplistic for the phenomena he was observing -- aggression in adolescents -- and so decided to add a little something to the formula: He suggested that environment causes behavior, true; but behavior causes environment as well. ... He began to look at personality as an interaction among three “things:” the environment, behavior, and the person’s psychological processes.
According to his article, Exercise of Human Agency Through Collective Efficiency, “people are partly products of their environment, but by selecting, creating, and transforming their environmental circumstances they are producers of environments as well” (Bandura 75). One thing that factors greatly into Bandura’s theory is human agency. ... However, this is not the case according to Bandura. In Bandura’s social cognitive theory there are three different forms of agency—personal, proxy, and collective. ... “In many activities, however, people do not have direct control over social conditions and institutional practices that affect their lives. Under these circumstances they seek their well being and security though the exercise of proxy agency (Bandura 75). ... in regards to collective efficacy on thing Bandura states is, “A group’s attainments are the product not only of shared knowledge and skills of its different members, but also of the interactive, coordinative and synergistic dynamic of their transactions” (Bandura 75). Bandura explains this further by stating that this might be illustrated by a group who are all individually talented but perform poorly as a group.
Approximate Word count = 1312
Approximate Pages = 5.2
(250 words per page double spaced)
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