Social Learning

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is a perspective that states that people learn within a social context. It is facilitated through concepts such as modeling and observational learning. [ 1 ]

Social learning theory

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_learning_theory
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Mischel

Walter Mischel

Walter Mischel (born 1930) is an American psychologist specializing in personality theory and social psychology . He is the Robert Johnston Niven Professor of Humane Letters in the Department of Psychology at Columbia University .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explanatory_style

Explanatory style

Explanatory style is a psychological attribute that indicates how people explain to themselves why they experience a particular event, either positive or negative.
Locus of control is a theory in personality psychology referring to the extent to which individuals believe that they can control events that affect them.

Locus of control

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locus_of_control
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobo_doll_experiment The Bobo doll experiment was the name of the experiments conducted by Albert Bandura in 1961 and 1963 studying children´s behavior after watching an adult model act aggressively towards a Bobo doll.

Bobo doll experiment

Albert Bandura

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Bandura Albert Bandura (born December 4, 1925, in Mundare , Alberta , Canada ) is a psychologist who is the David Starr Jordan Professor Emeritus of Social Science in Psychology at Stanford University . For almost six decades, he has been responsible for contributions to many fields of psychology, including social cognitive theory , therapy and personality psychology , and was also influential in the transition between behaviorism and cognitive psychology . He is known as the originator of social learning theory and the theory of self-efficacy , and is also responsible for the influential 1961 Bobo doll experiment .

Self-efficacy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-efficacy Self-efficacy is the measure of one's own ability to complete tasks and reach goals. [ 1 ] Psychologists have studied self-efficacy from several perspectives, noting various paths in the development of self-efficacy; the dynamics of self-efficacy, and lack thereof, in different settings; interactions between self-efficacy and self-concept; and habits of attribution that contribute to, or detract from, self-efficacy.