This website developed and maintained by Frank Pajares at Emory University in 2004 provides a detailed biography about Albert Bandura. The website provides links to various important events and accomplishments in the life of Albert Bandura.
Read the biography of Albert Bandura and prepare a reaction paper about what things impressed you most about him.
Albert Bandura: Biographical Sketch
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This website developed and maintained by George Boeree of Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania provides a brief biography of Bandura and an interesting account of social learning theory developed by Bandura.
Review this website and describe how social learning theory is used in therapy.
Albert Bandura
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This article, by Albert Bandura's article published in 2004 in the journal, Health Education and Behavior, examines health promotion and disease prevention from the perspective of social cognitive theory. The article argues that human health is a social matter.
Read the article and present your views as for and against the assertion that human health is a social matter.
Health Promotion by Social Cognitive Means
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This website presents an overview of social cognitive theory and compares it with theory of constructivism and cooperative learning. SCT, as we have seen, underscores the role of self-efficacy, self control, outcome expectations and outcome expectancies in relation to behavior development. In constructivism, learner actively constructs new ideas and interprets concepts based upon current and past knowledge. In cooperative learning, the learner is actively engaged in the learning process.
Review this website and compare and contrast the three theoretical approaches.
Idea: Social Cognitive Theory compared with constructivism and cooperative learning
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This is the website developed and maintained by Frank Pajares at Emory University in 2002. The website briefly traces the origin of social cognitive theory; it then talks about the fundamental human capabilities, and then describes self-efficacy beliefs.
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Overview of Social Cognitive Theory and self-efficacy
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This website features a brief four minute video on Social Cognitive Theory. Watch the accounts of Bobo doll experiment and snake phobia therapy.
Share one important implication from either of these two accounts that you learned from watching this video.
Social Cognitive Theory: Brief video
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This is a website summarizes the Social Cognitive Theory. The website describes the origin of the Social Cognitive theory with particular emphasis on preceding social learning theories and also presents an overview of SCT.
Review the website and comment on how social cognitive theory is different and similar to social learning theory.
University of South Florida: Social Cognitive Theory
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